OK, I see. I did not know about this behaviour as I always use brute-forcedly the more trivial \input.
I am meaning that what you say seems to be caused by the use of \includeonly + \include. If I use \input instead, then the \newlabel's go into test.aux In node (info "(latex2e) Splitting the input") the almost only difference mentionned between \input and \include is that one is an incondition inclusion, while the other is triggered by \includeonly in the preamble. Another mentionned difference is that \include cannot be used recursively. But anyway, nothing is said w.r.t. to .aux file production. I heard that in general \include is more optimized for compilation time and has some more constraints (ie you cannot split in any place with an \include). It would certainly be good to elaborate on this. Any idea where to find the info ? Vincent. Le 22/11/2016 à 13:45, Hefferon, James S. a écrit : > > Vincent, > > Nice to hear from you. Let me apologize that I haven't been a > contributer lately. There are a lot of balls in the air here. > > As to the question: with this as test.tex > > ===== test.tex below ====== > \documentclass[12pt]{article} > \includeonly{test1, > test2} > > \usepackage{lipsum} > \begin{document} > \include{test1} > \include{test2} > \end{document} > ===== test.tex above ====== > > > and these as test1.tex and test2.tex. > > ===== test1.tex below ====== > \lipsum[1] > \label{ex:test1} > ===== test1.tex above ====== > > > ===== test2.tex below ====== > \lipsum[2] > \label{ex:test2} > ===== test2.tex above ====== > > then running "pdflatex test" twice gives this. > > ftpmaint@millstone:~/tmp/tex$ ls test*.aux > test1.aux test2.aux test.aux > > The contents of those .aux files is what you would think. > > ftpmaint@millstone:~/tmp/tex$ cat test1.aux > \relax > \newlabel{ex:test1}{{}{1}} > \@setckpt{test1}{ > \setcounter{page}{2} > \setcounter{equation}{0} > \setcounter{enumi}{0} > \setcounter{enumii}{0} > \setcounter{enumiii}{0} > \setcounter{enumiv}{0} > \setcounter{footnote}{0} > \setcounter{mpfootnote}{0} > \setcounter{part}{0} > \setcounter{section}{0} > \setcounter{subsection}{0} > \setcounter{subsubsection}{0} > \setcounter{paragraph}{0} > \setcounter{subparagraph}{0} > \setcounter{figure}{0} > \setcounter{table}{0} > \setcounter{lips@count}{1} > } > > > Regards, > Jim > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > If we pin this election on coastal elites, we are excusing white > working-class and rural Americans for voting for a man accused of violating > the Fair Housing Act by refusing to rent apartments to black people. If we > pin this election on coastal elites, we are excusing white working-class and > rural Americans for voting for a man who called Mexicans rapists, drug > dealers and criminals. If we pin this election on coastal elites, we are > excusing white working-class and rural Americans for voting for a man who > called for a complete ban on Muslim immigration. > > Patrick Thornton > http://www.rollcall.com/im-a-coastal-elite-from-the-midwest-the-real-bubble-is-rural-america > --- L'absence de virus dans ce courrier électronique a été vérifiée par le logiciel antivirus Avast. https://www.avast.com/antivirus