Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Caption inside of tikz node

[bidski]

I have a large tikzpicture inside of a figure environment. The tikzpicture takes up an entire page apart from a small blank section in the bottom right corner. I have attached an image showing the layout I am trying to achieve

The caption is going to be quite lengthy and scaling the image content down to allow the caption to fit below the image is going to make some of the content unreadable.

What I would like to do is place the caption inside the small blank section in the image, perhaps inside a tikz node.

Is it possible to have

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\node[options] at (position) {\caption{\label{....}......}};

inside a tikzpicture? If not, is it possible to have plain text in the node that is formatted the way caption text is usually formatted (including the "Figure X.Y: " with the correct numbering for the current place in the document)?

[bidski]

After some more extensive googling I finally managed to find an answer! The following code snippet achieves the effect that I am looking for.

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\node [options] at (position) {
    \parbox{\linewidth}{
        \caption{\label{demo}Figure caption}
}};

[Bartman]

You can use the text width option instead.

[bidski]

While the posted solution does put the caption inside of a tikz node, doing this will not increment the figure counter correctly and will also do bad things with the list of figures.