Re: Environment \starttikzpicture \stoptikzpicture like float

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

> On May 24, 2015, at 5:48 AM, Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Fabrice Couvreur wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> Why the command \placerecipe{}{} does not with an environment
>> \starttikzpicture
>> \stoptikzpicture ?
> 
> In my opinion this is a "bug" in TikZ that has been pointed out a
> while ago already. The picture creates a "wrong type of the box". If I
> remember correctly the behaviour is different in LaTeX.
> 
> An easy workaround (that I always use) is to enclose the graphic into
> an \hbox{}, like this:
> 
> \hbox{\starttikzpicture
> ...
> % content
> ...
> \stoptikzpicture}
> 
> (With \placefigure or \placerecipe or whatever used as usual before
> the \hbox{}.)
> 
> We might want to coordinate a patch with the TikZ team.

Yes, it is a two line change in t-tikz that would not affect the latex or plain tex behavior. 

Aditya 
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