I don't know if this can be counted as a bug, because I don't know if it's supposed to work in the first place.
Anyway, consider the code below. In the first case both the a
and b
are centered, whereas in the second case, with \newline
, the a
is left aligned.
(Up to date TeX Live 2016.)
\documentclass[border=4mm]{standalone} \usepackage{tikz} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \node [align=center,text width=3cm,draw] {a \\ b}; \node [align=center,text width=3cm,draw] at (0,-1) {a \newline b}; \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}