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You're not using BibTeX in your example. To do so, use \bibliography{file} where file.bib exists and is somewhere BibTeX can find it. Delete your \thebibliography environment; BibTeX generates that for you.

The reason your entries were in the order you wrote them in the bibliography is because ...

This might very well be caused by the placement specification [h!] with the first figure. Since latex tries to place the figures in the order in which you specify it will keep all floats in memory until it can place the first of it. Apparently the first figure can't be placed immediately, and you ...

Hmm, that's what I wanted to add to my previous post :P with alignment it is often the innermost element that needs to be aligned to the surrounding code, and since the example number is part of the outer environment is definitely worth looking for an alignment option to the tabular environment ...

Actually, this is all just a little hacking about at the code, trying to add some more columns to have a little more fine grained placement options, maybe there is a more elegant solution in the manual :P
I reduced the column spacing a little, added some commas to move the text away from the borders ...

You'll want to use the \citefield command to insert fields other than the author name (page 87 of the biblatex manual).

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib ...

The alignment of the tabular environment is controlled by the optional [pos] argument, setting this to [t] op alignment moves the tabular environment downwards so its top aligns with the surrounding text instead of its center:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{covington}

\begin{document ...

The lack of replies might be caused by other people being busy with their own problems ;) and maybe also by you using a package with french documentation which reduces the number of people able to read it (I think I kind of understand it, but it takes me much longer than a plain english manual would ...

What shortcut do you use to build the output? I don't have TeXnicCenter at hand right now so I'm not entirely sure the following shortcuts are correct, but they are assigned something like this:


F7: Build output
CTRL+F7: Build current file
F5: View output
CTRL+F5: Build output and view output

OpenType fonts such as raleway can be used most easily through the fontspec package. Note that this can only be compiled using XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX. To use this font in mathmode as well use the mathspec package, which can only be compiled with XeLaTeX.

The underscore is indeed an active character that is only allowed in mathmode. So to print a literal _ you need \_ , which simply prints the underscore from the current font. In the default font this is a rather narrow character, to make a wider underscore you could something like this ...