Unexpected capacity exceeded

Question

The following code gives me an unexpected capacity exceeded error, and I don't understand why...

 \[\begin{tikzpicture}[xscale=5, yscale=5.5]
node (1) at (0,0){
 $\begin{tikzpicture}[xscale=0.6, yscale=0.6]
\tikzset{morphlabel/.style={draw=black, thin, rectangle, minimum width=7pt, fill=white, 
 font=\scriptsize}}
\node[morphlabel] at (0, 0) {$a$};
 \end{tikzpicture}$};
 \end{tikzpicture}]

What feels really odd to me is that I use almost identical code at other places, and don't get any error message?

Please extend this to a full example others can copy and test as is. That said, using tikzpicture inside tikz picture is asking for trouble. What exactly are you trying to do? — daleif, Apr 14 '21 at 07:10
Oups... I was afraid I had made such a dumb mistake. Thanks for pointing it out! — JeCl, Apr 17 '21 at 06:57

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 14 '21 at 07:25

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{tikz}
\newsavebox\mybox
\begin{lrbox}{\mybox}
    \begin{tikzpicture}[]
    \tikzset{morphlabel/.style={draw=black, thin, rectangle, minimum width=7pt, fill=white, 
            font=\scriptsize}}

    \node[morphlabel] at (0,0) {$a$};

\end{tikzpicture}
\end{lrbox}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[]
\node (1) at (0,0){\usebox\mybox};

\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

Unexpected capacity exceeded

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