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Re: Bold face for Figure - How to do it

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From: Rodney Graeme McDuff
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:29
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In article <1993Jan25.004248.14611@news.uiowa.edu>, sundaram@blackmail.eng.uiowa.edu (Subbiah Sundaram) writes:
|> Hi,
|>    I have to make the caption in the figure
|> environment bold face. 
|> \caption{\bf this is a test}
|> gives output as 
|> 
|> Figure.X This is a test. 
|> 
|> here the Figure.X is
|> not bold. I want to make it bold. Is there a way?

In the style file that you are using find the line
  \def\fnum@figure{\figurename{} \thefigure} 
and replace it by
  \def\fnum@figure{{\bf \figurename{} \thefigure}}

This will make the "Figure.X" bold but not the following text.
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Subject: Re: Bold face for Figure - How to do it
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