Answering to myself, one more comment:
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Assign a number to @var{key}. In ordinary text
code{\label@{@var{key}@}} assigns to @var{key} the number of the current
sectional unit.
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I think that `Assign a number to @var{key}' is a bit misleading, because
this can be anything that is in \@currentlabel at this time, which may
be something like 1.2-5 (not really a plain number). In my opinion it
would be bettet to write `Assign a reference number to @var{key}'
Vincent.
>Hello Jim,
>
>I am updating the French manual with your updates from rev481 --- I had
>overlooked them until now, and I came accross this statement:
>
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>@LaTeX{} writes the information from the labels to a file with the same
>name as the file containing the @code{\label@{...@}} but with an
>@file{.aux} extension.
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>
>I understand this as if when the input is split in N .tex files, and you
>have N \label commands, one in each file, then you would have N .aux
>files with the corresponding \newlabel commands.
>
>I am surprised, as I thought that there is one single .aux file, named
>\jobname.aux, where \jobname is a macro expanding to the basename of the
>master .tex file, or to some name passed on the command line with the
>-jobname option if any.
>
>Please tell me if I am wrong.
>
>VBR,
> Vincent
>
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