circuitikz
Since upgrading to circuitikz 2.4, I noticed that the voltage labels are way too close to the circuit elements.
For example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[american voltages,siunitx]{circuitikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{circuitikz}
\draw (0,0) to [R=\SI{10}{\ohm},v=$v_r(t)$] (0,3)
to [C=\SI{10}{F},v=$v_c(t)$] (0,6);
\end{circuitikz}
\end{document}
This is what my output looks like with circuitikz 2.4:
Anyone else experience this? Is there an easy fix?
Not sure if there is a better way, but you can use label/align=rotate which produces good results, or add manual spacing (but this does apply to the polarity signs) as shown in the example below.
Here is a comparison of these two options:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[siunitx]{circuitikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{circuitikz}[american]
\draw (0,0) to[R=90<\ohm>, v_>=$v_g$] (0,2)
node [above] {\tiny\verb|default|};
\draw (2,0) to[R=90<\ohm>, v_>=$v_g$,label/align=rotate] (2,2)
node [above] {\tiny\verb|label/align=rotate|};
\draw (4,0) to[R=90<\ohm>, v_>=$\quad v_g$] (4,2)
node [above] {\tiny\verb|\quad|};
\end{circuitikz}
\end{document}
You can use
(3.5, 1.8) to [open,v=$v_1$] (3.5,0.2)
to draw the voltage between two points.
\documentclass[tikz,border=5pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{circuitikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{circuitikz} [american voltages, baseline=(current bounding box.center)]
\ctikzset { label/align = straight }
\draw (0,0)
% fake resistor, using for voltage label only
(3.5, 1.8) to [open,v=$v_1$] (3.5,0.2)
(1.5,2) to[short, -o] (1.5,2)
(1.5,2) to[short,i=$i$, -o] (5,2)
to[short] (4.5,2)
(1.5,0) to[short, -o] (1.5,0)
(1.5,0) to[short, -o] (5,0)
to[short] (4.5,0);
\node[draw,minimum width=2cm,minimum height=2.4cm,anchor=south west] at (4.5,-0.2){B};
\node[draw,minimum width=2cm,minimum height=2.4cm,anchor=south west] at (0, -0.2){A};
\end{circuitikz}
\end{document}
Best Answer
I am not really familiar with the
circuitikzpackage, so maybe there's a more "proper" way of solving the issue. However, you can manually add some horizontal space: