Simple tikz-timing example fails to compile with "TeX capacity exceeded"

Question

When trying to use the timztimingtable environment with MikTeX 2.9 (TikZ-Timing 0.7d), it fails with the following error message. However, using the plain \timing and \texttiming commands works fine. How can I fix this?

! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=5000].
\pgf@selectfontorig ->\pgf@selectfontorig 
                                          \nullfont 
l.6 T
     est & cccc\\

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz-timing}
\begin{document}
Foo \texttiming{cccc}      % This works

\begin{tikzpicture}
\timing {cccc};            % This also works
%\begin{tikztimingtable}   % This fails to compile
%Test & cccc\\
%\end{tikztimingtable}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

You shouldn't embed the tikztimingtable in a tikzpicture — egreg, Sep 09 '14 at 22:30
Ah okay, that works... Don't know why I thought it should be that way. — Fritz, Sep 09 '14 at 22:32
Yes, that seems obvious now. But not when I wrote it. Writen an answer and I'll accept it. ;-) — Fritz, Sep 09 '14 at 22:42

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 09 '14 at 22:56

Apparently tikztimingtable doesn't like being called inside a tikzpicture, being a tikzpicture itself; the error is due to the mechanism TikZ/PGF uses for avoiding typesetting undesired things (that is, using \nullfont that has no character in it).

If you need it in a tikzpicture, then it's probably in the text for a node like in

\node at (0,0) {\begin{tikztimingtable}...\end{tikztimingtable}};

which works. But you can't use tikztimingtable at the top level in a tikzpicture.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz-timing}
\begin{document}
Foo \texttiming{cccc}      % This works

\begin{tikzpicture}
\timing {cccc};            % This also works
\end{tikzpicture}

\begin{tikztimingtable}   % This is good
Test & cccc\\
\end{tikztimingtable}

\end{document}

Simple tikz-timing example fails to compile with "TeX capacity exceeded"

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