What is the way to left-align labels in a tikz-timing diagram?

Question

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{tikz-timing}

\newcommand{\degr}{degr}

\begin{document}

\begin{tikztimingtable}
  Clock 128\,MHz 0\degr    & H   12{2C} G \\ % ends with edge
  \color{red}\tiny Clock 128\,MHz 90\degr   & [C] 12{2C} C \\ % starts with edge
  Clock 128\,MHz 180\degr  & C   12{2C} G \\ % ends with edge
  Clock 128\,MHz 270\degr  &     12{2C} C \\
\end{tikztimingtable}

\end{document}

I'd like all labels 'Clock...' to be left aligned.

Answer 1

The nodes used for those captions use the style /tikz/timing/name.

You can append to this style options like

• align=left and
• text width=1.4in (to use the example of Stefen B. Segletes’ answer).

Of course, if you don’t want to guess the width of the widest box you can either set text width=\widthof{<longest text>} or use the idea behind Dependent node size in TikZ for the a most automatic solution.

Code

\documentclass[tikz,convert=false]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz-timing}
\newcommand{\degr}{degr}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikztimingtable}[timing/name/.append style={align=left, text width=1.4in}]
  Clock 128\,MHz 0\degr    & H   12{2C} G \\ % ends with edge
  \color{red}\tiny Clock 128\,MHz 90\degr   & [C] 12{2C} C \\ % starts with edge
  Clock 128\,MHz 180\degr  & C   12{2C} G \\ % ends with edge
  Clock 128\,MHz 270\degr  &     12{2C} C \\
\end{tikztimingtable}
\end{document}

Output