When I use pdflatex, I get a bunch of files:
test.aux test.log test.out test.pdf test.tex test.toc The .tex file and the .pdf file have an obvious use, but what do the other files do?
Thanks in advance.
- The best thing is to open these files with some text editor. For example log file contains logs from compiler, toc file is something like 'table of chapters' because as you can see there is a chapters' and sections' list used in a tex file and so on. I have additionally lof file (list of figures) and lot file (list of tables).wawek– wawek2013-12-29 11:49:53 +00:00Commented Dec 29, 2013 at 11:49
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- See also tex.stackexchange.com/questions/7770/… tex.stackexchange.com/q/53240 tex.stackexchange.com/questions/11123/…Torbjørn T.– Torbjørn T.2014-01-03 15:49:08 +00:00Commented Jan 3, 2014 at 15:49
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.auxis the the "auxiliary" file and is used for (among other things) tracking cross-references made with\labeland\ref. This file is why you need to runpdflatextwice to make the references resolve. The first pass writes data about the references to the.auxfile and the second reads the.auxfile and uses that to generate the necessary references. Generally, anything that needs to wait for the entire document to be generated (like page numbers) is written to.auxso it can be added in on a later pass..logcontains a log of whatpdflatexdid. You can find things like error messages and a list of what packages got loaded in here..outis used to store extra information for the PDF. For example the bookmarks in the PDF file are generated using this file..tocis like.auxbut only used for the table of contents, since the proper page numbers can't be known until the PDF has been generated. There are likewise.lofand.lotfiles for lists of figures and lists of tables.
Except for the .tex file these are all generated by pdflatex and can be safely deleted.
