How to make caption bold in ctable?

Question

If I use

\ctable[caption = \textbf{something}]{}{}{}

the text inside the caption is bold but TABLE 1. is not ... It looks like this:

TABLE 1: something

and i would like

TABLE 1: something

Answer 1

You could use the caption package and set \captionsetup[table]{font=bf,position=below} to get bold label and caption text. The position=below is necessary to get the right spacing of the caption.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{caption}
\captionsetup[table]{font=bf,position=below}
\usepackage{ctable}

\begin{document}
This is a row of text, so we can see the whitespace around the table

\ctable[
caption = Centered,pos=hbtp!
]{cc}{}{\FL Table's first row & Second column\LL}

This is a row of text, so we can see the whitespace around the table
 \end{document}

Answer 2

If you don't like to use the caption package, for example in case in would interfere with ctable somehow (ctable is not mentioned in the caption documentation), you could redefine the macro which prints the caption and is usually defined by the class. A small example:

\usepackage{letltxmacro}
\makeatletter
\LetLtxMacro{\@stdmakecaption}{\@makecaption}
\renewcommand{\@makecaption}[2]{\bfseries\@stdmakecaption{#1}{#2}}