Drop shadow of baselined tikz node not placed correctly

Question

I want to draw a tikz node that has as its baseline the baseline of the text around and have a drop shadow. My code however causes the drop shadow to be misplaced.

\documentclass[]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shadows.blur}

\newcommand{\propbox}[1]{
    \hspace{-.125cm}\tikz[baseline=(A.base)]{\node[
      fill = red,
      blur shadow={shadow blur steps=5}] (A) {#1};}
}


\begin{document}
This is \propbox{some} sample text.
\end{document}

Compare this to the correct shadow, where the baseline for the node is not specified:

How can I fix the shadow?

Unrelated: instead of the \hspace, add a % at the end of the \newcommand{\propbox}[1]{ line, to remove the space caused by the newline in the code. — Torbjørn T., Nov 17 '17 at 18:31
Seems that an old bug has returned: TikZ: baseline interferes with blur shadow on background layer — Peter Grill, Nov 17 '17 at 19:32

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 10 '20 at 12:32

Here is a temporary hack that you can use:

Note

Are per Torbjørn T's suggestion, you can eliminate the \hspace{-.125cm} hack by inserting a % follwoing the open paren as that eliminates the suprious space that was being inserted.

Code:

\documentclass[border=5pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shadows.blur}
\newcommand{\propbox}[1]{%
    %\hspace{-.125cm} <-- Hack fixed by % above
    \tikz[baseline=(A.base)]{
        \node[outer sep=1pt,
          fill = red,
          blur shadow={
              shadow blur steps=5,
              baseline=(A.south),% <--- ADDED
          },
        ] (A) {#1};%
    }% <--- NOTE. Without this you will have additional space following the `\propbox'
}
\begin{document}
This is \propbox{some} sample text.
\end{document}

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 17 '17 at 17:53

1

using tcolorbox

\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shadows.blur}

\usepackage{tcolorbox}
\tcbuselibrary{skins}

\newcommand{\propbox}[1]{
  \hspace{-.125cm}\tikz[baseline=(A.base)]{\node[
    fill = red,
    blur shadow={shadow blur steps=5}] (A) {#1};}
}

\begin{document}

This is \propbox{some} sample text.

This is \tcbox[enhanced, size=fbox, drop fuzzy shadow=black, 
nobeforeafter, boxsep=2pt, coltext=white, frame hidden, on line,
colback=red!75,]{some} sample text

\end{document}

answered Nov 17 '17 at 17:53

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Thanks, but is there a solution with tikz? This was just a minimal working example and I have a lot of tikz stuff in my actual code. For example I have these boxes shaded in my actual code and I just spent 30 min trying to figure out how I can do that with this tcolobox thing. – lo tolmencre Nov 17 '17 at 18:26

Drop shadow of baselined tikz node not placed correctly

2 Answers2

Note

Code: