%% %% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed %% %% Example 8-5-21 on page I-643 in "Transformations and other operations". %% %% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach %% %% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions %% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c %% of this license or (at your option) any later version. %% %% See https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details. %% \documentclass{tlc3exa} \pagestyle{empty} \setcounter{page}{6} \setlength\textwidth{135.0pt} \usepackage{microtype} % improve line breaking %StartShownPreambleCommands \usepackage{tikz} %StopShownPreambleCommands \begin{document} A line of random text first \ldots\\ Left of picture% \begin{tikzpicture} \draw[overlay] (2,1)circle[radius=1.5cm]; % overlaid \draw[use as bounding box] (2,0) rectangle (3,1); \draw (1,0) -- (4,.75); % also not counted in \draw (1,.75) -- (4,0); % bounding box calculation \end{tikzpicture}% right of picture. More text, more text, and more text. \end{document}