The way I’ve programmed in TikZ so far (but maybe I have been missing something), I have never heard of ways to tell TikZ where to put the origin of the coordinate system on the printed page. But there are many situations where I would like to. For example, in the minimal example below, part of the picture is eaten up on the right margin and I exclaim "Why doesn’t TikZ push the figure a little to the left so that everything gets displayed ?"
How does TikZ transfer the coordinate system to the printed page by default? This is probably explained somewhere in the manual, but I got somewhat lost searching through the index as I didn’t know which keyword to look for.
Any help appreciated.
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\foreach \x in {0,2,4,6,8} {
\draw (2*\x,0) -- ++(1,1);
}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{center}
\end{document}
tikzpicture
environment (12.2), but I guess there is more somewhere else.