I am struggling with the positioning of a node above a tikz path. The path is curved and connects two nodes with "to". Here is a MVE:  \documentclass[a4paper,twoside,11pt]{book} \usepackage{tikz} \begin{document}  \begin{tikzpicture}[scale=1,transform shape] \draw[-&gt;,thick,out=0,in=180] (1,0) to (5,1) node[above,pos=0.5,sloped] {text}; \draw[-&gt;,thick] (1,3) -- (5,4) node[above,pos=0.5,sloped] {text}; \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}   The node is above the line in the case with "--" but not with the "to". What I am missing here?  I am pretty sure I had something similar working in the past...
I have found a strange behavior in TikZ. When using the \draw ... to ... syntax and trying to place nodes along the line with the node[...]{...} syntax, the nodes do not turn up at the expected location.  \documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{tikz} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture}   \draw(0,0) to[out=60,in=120] (1,0) node[midway]{x}; \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}     How is this done properly?
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