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I want my figure captions to have the following format:

  • Figure number is bold
  • First couple of words are the title of the figure and always bold
  • Rest of caption is not bold

Here's my MWE:

\documentclass{report}

\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[labelfont=bf,textfont=bf]{caption}

\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{cat}
    \caption{A cat} depicted sitting at the table.
\end{figure}
\end{document}

This makes the following:

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I don't like this because the caption shouldn't be centered and also the non-bold text shouldn't be on a new line. It should look like this:

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And the name of the figure in the list of figures (not shown) should be only the bold portion, not the whole thing.

Unacceptable solutions:

  • Removing textfont=bf and then bolding A cat - figure caption will be too long in list of figures.
  • Using the short title parameter of \caption - I will end up typing every title twice, it's annoying and violates DRY.
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  • Simply add \captionsetup{format=plain, justification=justified, font=bf}.
    – Bernard
    Feb 23, 2019 at 0:41
  • @Bernard, I think OP wants only the first 2 words in bold (and they should go to lof).
    – Sigur
    Feb 23, 2019 at 1:20
  • @sigur: Yes, I had misread. Your solution is perfectly fine.
    – Bernard
    Feb 23, 2019 at 9:34

1 Answer 1

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What about this? Use the command

\mycaption[A cat]{depicted sitting at the table.} 

In this case you don't need to type it twice; you only need to split it.

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\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[labelfont=bf]{caption}
\newcommand{\mycaption}[2][]{\caption[#1]{\textbf{#1} #2}}

\begin{document}
\listoffigures    
\begin{figure}\centering
    \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{example-image-a}
    \mycaption[A cat]{depicted sitting at the table.}
\end{figure}
\end{document}
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