General ⇒ How to make Table captions bold?

[yusuf]

One other question, if I place the package is another directory not in the one I am running LATEX in, how can I point to it?

Such as the example for the caption?

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\usepackage[format=hang,font=small,labelfont=bf]{caption}

Do I invoke the \usepackage in a different manner?

[yusuf]

Ok I think I figured how to use my own directory for LATEX to search for new packages etc...

I just did this:

setenv TEXINPUTS= ~/texmf

I got this in my listfiles call:

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*File List*
  report.cls    2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class
  size11.clo    2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX file (size option)
geometry.sty    2002/07/08 v3.2 Page Geometry
  keyval.sty    1999/03/16 v1.13 key=value parser (DPC)
geometry.cfg    2001/06/05 v1.0 teTeX (uncustomised setup)
 sectsty.sty    2002/02/25 v2.0.2 Commands to change all sectional heading styles
 bookman.sty    2002/09/08 PSNFSS-v9.0a (SPQR) 
 fontenc.sty
   t1enc.def    2001/06/05 v1.94 Standard LaTeX file
chancery.sty    2002/09/08 PSNFSS-v9.0a (SPQR) 
fancyhdr.sty    
longtable.sty    2000/10/22 v4.10 Multi-page Table package (DPC)
placeins.sty    2002/06/27  v 2.0
graphicx.sty    1999/02/16 v1.0f Enhanced LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)
graphics.sty    2001/07/07 v1.0n Standard LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)
    trig.sty    1999/03/16 v1.09 sin cos tan (DPC)
graphics.cfg    2001/08/31 v1.1 graphics configuration of teTeX/TeXLive
  pdftex.def    2002/06/19 v0.03k graphics/color for pdftex
   color.sty    1999/02/16 v1.0i Standard LaTeX Color (DPC)
   color.cfg    2001/08/31 v1.1 color configuration of teTeX/TeXLive
hyperref.sty    2008/04/17 v6.77q Hypertext links for LaTeX
 hycolor.sty    2007/04/11 v1.1 Code for color options of hyperref/bookmark (HO)
  pd1enc.def    2008/04/17 v6.77q Hyperref: PDFDocEncoding definition (HO)
etexcmds.sty    2007/12/12 v1.2 Prefix for e-TeX command names (HO)
infwarerr.sty    2007/09/09 v1.2 Providing info/warning/message (HO)
hyperref.cfg    2002/06/06 v1.2 hyperref configuration of TeXLive and teTeX
kvoptions.sty    2007/10/18 v3.0 Keyval support for LaTeX options (HO)
 backref.sty    2006/09/05 v1.28 Bibliographical back referencing
     url.sty    1999/03/02  ver 1.4  Verb mode for urls, email addresses, and file names
  bitset.sty    2007/09/28 v1.0 Data type bit set (HO)
 intcalc.sty    2007/09/27 v1.1 Expandable integer calculations (HO)
bigintcalc.sty    2007/11/11 v1.1 Expandable big integer calculations (HO)
pdftexcmds.sty    2007/12/12 v0.3 LuaTeX support for pdfTeX utility functions (HO)
kvsetkeys.sty    2007/09/29 v1.3 Key value parser with default handler support (HO)
atbegshi.sty    2007/09/09 v1.6 At begin shipout hook (HO)
   ifpdf.sty    2007/12/12 v1.6 Provides the ifpdf switch (HO)
 hpdftex.def    2008/04/17 v6.77q Hyperref driver for pdfTeX
 caption.sty    2008/04/01 v3.1h Customizing captions (AR)
caption3.sty    2008/03/20 v3.1h caption3 kernel (AR)
ltcaption.sty    2008/03/28 v1.2 longtable captions (AR)
   t1pag.fd    2001/06/04 font definitions for T1/pag.
supp-pdf.tex
 nameref.sty    2007/05/29 v2.31 Cross-referencing by name of section
refcount.sty    2006/02/20 v3.0 Data extraction from references (HO)
   t1pcr.fd    2001/06/04 font definitions for T1/pcr.
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[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi yusuf,

I remember that you even may use paths inside \usepackage like \usepackage{./packages/caption} but it may raise a warning if the \ProvidesPackage line inside the package does not fit.
But I would not recommend that, it's better to use it without path, to put it inside the tex directory structure where the compiler can find it. Look here for information.

Stefan

[nphaibk]

Hello, have you tried

\renewcommand{\tablename}{\textbf TABLE}
\renewcommand{\figurename}{\textbf Figure}

Caption package is one of the solutions but using packages in you text is not necessary!!! goodluck

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi nphaibk,

welcome to the board!
With the code above just the first letter T or F will be printed with bold font, \textbf has to take is as paramater, like

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\renewcommand{\tablename}{\textbf{TABLE}}

But the table number will not be bold then.

Perhaps you've meant something like

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\renewcommand{\tablename}{\bfseries TABLE}

Stefan

[nphaibk]

Hi Stefan,

Yeah, you were right. I forgot to add {}, another option is: \renewcommand{\figurename}{\bf Figure}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi nphaibk,

another option is: \renewcommand{\figurename}{\bf Figure}

\bf is obsolete, it's just supported by classes to provide backward compatibility. Citing from article.cls:

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\DeclareOldFontCommand{\bf}{\normalfont\bfseries}{\mathbf}

Similar for \rm, \sf, \tt, \it, \sl, \sc.

Stefan

[nphaibk]

Hello, I got the problem again

\renewcommand{\figurename}{\bf Figure} works perfectly until I installed Miktex 2.8 and winedt5.6, which makes the whole caption bold. I just want to bold 'Figure <number>'.

I tried \renewcommand{\thefigure}{\bf figure} and it makes bold also the figure number in \ref{}

any idea to fix it, tkx in advance

[localghost]

Forget these dubious redefinitions and let the caption package do the job.

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\usepackage[%
  font=small,
  labelfont=bf,
  tableposition=top
]{caption}

Use only LaTeX2e syntax for switching between font styles.



Best regards
Thorsten

[nphaibk]

it works perfectly
Thank you very much, Thorsten