Why does tikz's positioning library add whitespace on the left side of my diagram?

Question

Why does tikz's positioning library add whitespace on the left side of my diagram?

With positioning:

\documentclass[border=1mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\pagecolor{white}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning}
\begin{tikzpicture}[]
\draw (0,0) rectangle (7,4);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

Without positioning:

\documentclass[border=1mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\pagecolor{white}
%\usetikzlibrary{positioning}
\begin{tikzpicture}[]
\draw (0,0) rectangle (7,4);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

There still seems to be a big of extra whitespace on the left, but not much.

Always load libraries in the preamble. They are similar to packages. — Qrrbrbirlbel, Jan 16 '23 at 22:35

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 16 '23 at 22:00

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Grrrrr, it's the stuff between \begin{document} and \begin{tikzpicture} that's the culprit.

\documentclass[border=1mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\pagecolor{white}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[]
\draw (0,0) rectangle (7,4);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

answered Jan 16 '23 at 22:00

Jason S

2,838

1

Partially it's the unescaped line endings in your original example which all act like one space (the rest of the spaces comes from tikz itself) – samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz Jan 16 '23 at 22:12
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https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/7453/what-is-the-use-of-percent-signs-at-the-end-of-lines-why-is-my-macro-creat – samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz Jan 16 '23 at 22:13

Why does tikz's positioning library add whitespace on the left side of my diagram?

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