[texhax] question

[Robin Fairbairns]

> assia assia wrote on 22.06.2004:
> 
> >j'ai voulu créer une bibiographie, j'ai suivi toutes
> >étapes qu'il faut et quand j'ai compilé mon fichier
> >latex rapport.tex 
> >bibtex rapport.tex
> >j'ai eu l'erreur suivante:
> >I couldn't open file name `rapport.tex.aux'
> 
> Sorry, my French is limited. You should not bibtex the original
> rapport.tex but the rapport.aux file generated in the first run of
> latex. 

noooo!!!

then it will fail to find rapport.aux.aux

the command is

  bibtex rapport

(and fwiw the .tex is unneccesary too:

  latex rapport

works, though it's not quite so clunky as bibtex about the extension
being there.)