Why doesn't `\\` make a newline in TikZ?

Question

This code

\tikz \graph [layered layout] {
"I want newline after comma:" -> "Hello,\\ World.";
};

just gets rid of the whitespace between the "," and the "W" of "World" below:

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Why doesn't it make a newline?

this would be consistent with \mbox{hello\\world} which similarly does not break, you need a fixed width mode in tikz (which makes a parbox) — David Carlisle, May 23 '14 at 19:00

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '14 at 19:18

2

try this

\tikz [text centered] \graph [layered layout, nodes = {align=center}] {
"I want newline after comma:" -> "Hello,\\World.";
};

enter image description here

edited May 23 '14 at 19:18

Geremia

answered May 23 '14 at 19:07

rpapa

I don't want all the text's widths restricted, though. – Geremia May 23 '14 at 19:12

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