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the principal setting is this:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[italian]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{ifpdf}

\floatstyle{plain}
\newfloat{figura}{htp}{lop}
\floatname{figura}{Figura}
\newfloat{tabella}{htp}{lop}
\floatname{tabella ...

Hi, everybody,
i'm new to the forum and i've met a lot of problem using latex. i have ubuntu 8.10 and i'm trying to write a text but there are always some problems
this is what appears on my terminal when i try to transform the file tex in pdf:

This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6 ...