LaTeX caption alignment

Captions usually center justify. The caption package customizes caption alignment with the justification and singlelinecheck parameters of \captionsetup.

   \documentclass[10pt]{article}
   \usepackage{caption}
   \captionsetup{justification=raggedright, singlelinecheck=false}
   \begin{document}
   \begin{table}[h]
   \begin{tabular}{|ccccc|}
   \hline
   \textit{decimal}  && \textit{binary}  && \textit{musical} \\
   \hline
   &&&& \\
   $\frac{1}{2^{-1}}$ &=& $\frac{10}{1}$     &=& \lily{c\breve*1/8}    \\    [6pt]
   $\frac{1}{2^{0}} $ &=& $\frac{1}{1}$      &=& \lily{c1*1/4}         \\    [6pt]
   $\frac{1}{2^{1}} $ &=& $\frac{1}{10}$     &=& \lily{c2*1/2}         \\    [6pt]
   $\frac{1}{2^{2}} $ &=& $\frac{1}{100}$    &=& \lily{c4}             \\    [6pt]
   $\frac{1}{2^{3}} $ &=& $\frac{1}{1000}$   &=& \lily{c8}             \\    [6pt]
   $\frac{1}{2^{4}} $ &=& $\frac{1}{10000}$  &=& \lily{c16}            \\    [6pt]
   \hline
   \end{tabular}
   \caption{Binary equivalences.}
   \end{table}
   \end{document}

Input without \captionsetup and the caption package centers the caption at page middle, bad for narrow tables.

LaTeX guillemets

French guillemets are possible together with English open- and close-quotes. Use babel together with \og and \fg.

  \documentclass[10pt]{article}
  \usepackage[french]{babel}
  \begin{document}
  L\`a dans \textit{Le marteau sans ma\^itre, 
     \og Artisanat furieux \fg} o\`u se trouve \dots
  \end{document}

Five lines above give a minimal example.

LaTeX landscape

Rendering LaTeX in landscape means mucking with dvips and ps2pdf on most systems. These four lines work under OSX.

   `which latex` foo.tex
   `which dvips` -Ppdf -t landscape foo.dvi
   `which ps2pdf` foo.ps
   open foo.pdf

Make sure the LaTeX source starts with something like \documentclass[landscape,letterpaper]{article} and make sure the which subshells return real applications.

LaTeX line "justification"

Start with \hyphenpenalty=10000 to forbid hyphenation (almost) completely and you'll get fully-justified lines (which is good) and -- sometimes -- words that extend beyond the right margin (which is unacceptable). Add \tolerance=10000 and LaTeX will "tolerate" interword spacing and flush both left and right margins again.