Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Formatting tables, captions in preamble?

[fini_fly]

I am writing a short report using the 'article' documentclass. I would like all of my tables to be a smaller font size than the rest of the text and I would like to have bold captions for figures and tables.

I would like to avoid having to format each cell to a specific font size. Also I can't seem to get bolded font for the captions.

Is there a way to do this in the preamble?

[localghost]

The caption package lets you customize captions of floats. This and other requested settings are demonstrated in the following example for a table.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[font=small,textfont=bf]{caption}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\parindent0em

\begin{document}
  \blindtext

  \begin{table}[!ht]
    \centering
    \small
    \caption{Dummy table}\label{tab:dummy}
    \begin{tabular}{cc} \toprule
      Measurement & Value \\ \midrule
      1 & 49587 \\
      2 & 39509 \\
      3 & 17389 \\ \bottomrule
    \end{tabular}
  \end{table}

  \blindtext
\end{document}

The used packages and their documentations can be found on CTAN or via command prompt on your local machine.

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texdoc babel

Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

[marco_d]

Hello,

a small addition:
To change the font size global you can define your own environment:

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\documentclass[english]{article}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage[bf]{caption}
\captionsetup[table]{position=above}
\newenvironment{mytable}[1][htb]
{\begin{table}[#1]\small\centering}%
{\end{table}
} 

\begin{document}
\blindtext
\begin{mytable}[ht]
\caption{position ht}
\begin{tabular}{cc}
 1 & 4 \\
\end{tabular}
\end{mytable}
\blindtext
\begin{mytable}
\caption{position p}
\begin{tabular}{cc}
 1 & 4 \\
\end{tabular}
\end{mytable}

\end{document}

Marco

[fini_fly]

Thanks for the quick response. I'll give both a shot and let you know how it all goes!

Thanks again.

[fini_fly]

I've tried both of your suggestions and they work to a point as I can only get the caption to be bolded. For example:

Figure 2: Figure 2 caption is bold

How about the 'Figure #' and 'Table #' parts?

[marco_d]

Hello,

have you read the documentation of caption? Thorsten gave you the url. What do you mean with

Figure 2: Figure 2 caption is bold

How about the 'Figure #' and 'Table #' parts?

regards
Marco

[localghost]

I've tried both of your suggestions and they work to a point as I can only get the caption to be bolded. For example:

Figure 2: Figure 2 caption is bold

How about the 'Figure #' and 'Table #' parts?

A look at the manual of the package yields the solution. Simply change the options of package inclusion.

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

My first suggestion was based on the description in your initial post. For requests please describe the problem more precise.

[fini_fly]

Sorry but I hadn't had a chance to check the documentation. This answered my question:

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\usepackage[font={footnotesize,bf}]{caption}