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From: young@emx.utexas.edu (Young U. Ryu)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: FIGURE and BIBLIOGRAPHY questions (LATEX)
Keywords: LaTeX, Figure, Table, Bibliography
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Date: 13 Nov 90 07:34:30 GMT
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Organization: The University of Texas at Austin; Austin, Texas
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rigoutso@ROBROY.NYU.EDU (Isidore  Rigoutsos) asked the following
questions.

> 1) Is there any way to make the word "Figure" of the figure caption line be
>    *boldface*? 

%%% If you want both Figure (and Table) and following number
%%% in boldface
\catcode`@=11
\long\def\@makecaption#1#2{
 \vskip 10pt 
 \setbox\@tempboxa\hbox{{\bf #1}: #2}
 \ifdim \wd\@tempboxa >\hsize {\bf #1}: #2\par \else \hbox
to\hsize{\hfil\box\@tempboxa\hfil} 
 \fi}
\catcode`@=12

%%% or alternatively
\catcode`@=11
\def\fnum@figure{\bf Figure \thefigure}
\def\fnum@table{\bf Table \thetable}
\catcode`@=12

%%% If you want only Figure (and Table) in boldface
\catcode`@=11
\def\fnum@figure{{\bf Figure} \thefigure}
\def\fnum@table{{\bf Table} \thetable}
\catcode`@=12

> 2) Is there any way to replace the word "Figure" of the figure caption line
>    with something like "Fig." or any given string for that matter?

\catcode`@=11
\def\fnum@figure{Fig. \thefigure}
%\def\fnum@table{Table \thetable} % You may change Table to anything you want
\catcode`@=12

> 3) How can one get rid of the `:' (or replace it by `.') in the line
>		"Figure  XX : <caption text>"?

\catcode`@=11
\long\def\@makecaption#1#2{
 \vskip 10pt 
 \setbox\@tempboxa\hbox{#1. #2}      % was : instead of .
 \ifdim \wd\@tempboxa >\hsize #1. #2\par \else \hbox  % was : instead of .
to\hsize{\hfil\box\@tempboxa\hfil} 
 \fi}
\catcode`@=12

> 4) I would like to be able to draw a horizontal line of length \textwidth 
>    immediatelly after the caption line of a figure. Is that possible? How can
>    it be done? If this is not possible, could I instead put a box around the 
>    figure body?

Note: Somebody posted the \boxfigure macro, long time ago.
      Sorry, I don't remember who. He/she should get the credit
      for this macro and the \boxtable macro, absolutely.
      I modified the \boxfigure macro just a little bit.

%--------Start Here---------------------------------------------

% \boxfigure{pos}{wid}{text}:  A figure with a box around it
%
% pos     the usual figure placement arg: eg. htbp
% wid     the width of the figure, in some units: eg. 5in
% text    the contents of the figure, including
%         picture/caption/label/etc
%
\newlength{\boxwidth}
\newcommand{\boxfigure}[3]{
     \begin{figure}[#1]
          \setlength{\boxwidth}{#2}
          \addtolength{\boxwidth}{.1in}

          \centering
          \framebox[\boxwidth]{
               \begin{minipage}{#2}
               \vspace*{10 pt}
               #3
               \vspace*{5 pt}
               \end{minipage}
          }
     \end{figure}  
}

% \boxtable{pos}{wid}{text}:  A table with a box around it
%
% pos     the usual table placement arg: eg. htbp
% wid     the width of the table, in some units: eg. 5in
% text    the contents of the table, including
%         tabular/caption/label/etc
%
\newcommand{\boxtable}[3]{
     \begin{table}[#1]
          \setlength{\boxwidth}{#2}
          \addtolength{\boxwidth}{.1in}

          \centering
          \framebox[\boxwidth]{
               \begin{minipage}{#2}
               \vspace*{10 pt}
               #3
               \vspace*{5 pt}
               \end{minipage}
          }
     \end{table}  
}

% use \fullboxwidth for arg 2 of boxfigure & boxtable to get box of
% size \textwidth
\newlength{\fullboxwidth}
\setlength{\fullboxwidth}{\textwidth}
\addtolength{\fullboxwidth}{-0.1in}

%---------End Here----------------------------------------------

For example:
\boxfigure{htb}{\fulltextwidth}{
    \centering
    \begin{picture}
    LaTeX Picture Statements
    \end{picture}
    \caption{Blah Blah}\label{Foo}
}

> 5) Is there any way to replace the word "References" at the beginning of the 
>    bibliography section by a given string?

\def\thebibliography#1#2{\section*{#1\@mkboth
 {\uppercase{#1}}{\uppercase{#1}}}\list
 {[\arabic{enumi}]}{\settowidth\labelwidth{[#2]}\leftmargin\labelwidth
 \advance\leftmargin\labelsep
 \usecounter{enumi}}
 \def\newblock{\hskip .11em plus .33em minus .07em}
 \sloppy\clubpenalty4000\widowpenalty4000
 \sfcode`\.=1000\relax}
\let\endthebibliography=\endlist

For example

\begin{thebibliography}{My References}{99}

\bibitem ....

\end{thebibliography}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

Final Notes: If you include these macros in a XXX.sty file,
             you may not need \catcode`@=11 and \catcode`@=12.
             There may exist bugs ... :-)


Young
The Univ. of Texas at Austin