i don’t know if it’s a TikZ or a ConTeXt bug, but with the newest mkiv beta installed with mtx-update.lua, tikz fails when using the option “text badly centered” in combination with “text width”: \usemodule[tikz] \starttext \tikz\node[text badly centered, text width=1cm]{fail}; \stoptext gives: \tikz@text@action ...p =0pt\rightskip \@flushglue \leftskip \@flushglue \relax ... as it doesn’t occur with LaTeX, i think it might be a ConteXt bug.