Drawing electrical circuit diagrams with LaTeX

[Niles]

Hi all.

I've searched the WWW, and it doesn't seem that there is an easy way of doing this. Do you have any experience with this?

Thanks in advance.


Niles.

 

[robphy]

What do you define as "easy"?
What is it you want to do [specifically]?

http://www.google.com/search?q=latex+circuit

As alternatives to doing the markup in LaTeX,
there are packages that let you draw vector graphics that can be imported into LaTeX (as \graphics or as eps):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Electronics/Programs
http://www.xfig.org/ http://www.schmidt-web-berlin.de/winfig/
http://jpicedt.sourceforge.net/
http://live.gnome.org/Dia

 

[Niles]

The program in http://jpicedt.sourceforge.net/ looks very nice; I tried it, and it seems cool, though the conducting wires seem very bold (actually, most of the drawings seem very bold).

But it is something like that I need.

Is there a standard way of doing drawing circuits in LaTeX? I suppose I'm not the first one trying this.

 

[Simon Bridge]

For anything LaTeX, Go look on the ctan website. If you run some flavour of gnu/linux, you'll have these packages in your repository. For circuit diagrams, you need the pic interpreter and an M4 macro parser.

Also see:
https://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~aplevich/Circuit_macros/