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#1 2015-11-14 13:45:13
- kopiersperre
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BibTeX: Generating .aux from .bib
I have a BibTeX bibliography file from BibDesk, which I would like to process with bibtool. I am not planning to use it in a LaTeX document.
When I run
bibtex Literatur.bibI get
I couldn't open file name `Literatur.bib.aux'How do I generate the aux file from a bib file?
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#2 2015-11-14 13:59:42
- Trilby
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Re: BibTeX: Generating .aux from .bib
Bibtex generates a bbl from an aux. The aux file comes from a latex tool (latex/pdflatex/xelatex/etc). Bibtool works directly on the bib files. So why do you need a bbl file if you are not using it in a document?
In otherwords, you don't generate an aux file from a bib file. Aux files basically indicate which references are needed in a document - if you aren't preparing a document, an aux file doesn't make any sense.
"UNIX is simple and coherent" - Dennis Ritchie; "GNU's Not Unix" - Richard Stallman
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