This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete
documentation for this version of TeX can be found in the info file
or manual
Web2C: A TeX implementation.
The
patgen
program reads the
dictionary_file
and produces the
pattern_file,
writing a transcript of its actions on the
log_file.
The
dictionary_file
should contain a list of hyphenated words and
previously-generated patterns.
The patterns thus generated can be read by
initex
for use in hyphenating words. For a (very) long example of
patgen's
output, see
$TEXMFMAIN/generic/hyphen/hyphen.tex,
which contains the patterns TeX uses for English.
At some sites, patterns for several other languages may be available,
and the local
tex
programs may have them preloaded; consult your
Local Guide
or your system administrator for details.
All filenames must be complete; no adding of default
extensions or path searching is done.
FILES
$TEXMFMAIN/generic/hyphen/hyphen.tex
Patterns for English.
SEE ALSO
Frank Liang,
Word hy-phen-a-tion by com-puter,
STAN-CS-83-977,
Stanford University Ph.D. thesis, 1983.
Donald E. Knuth,
The TeX
book,
Addison-Wesley, 1986, ISBN 0-201-13447-0, Appendix H.
AUTHORS
Frank Liang wrote the first version of this program. Peter
Breitenlohner made a
substantial revision in 1991 for TeX 3.
The first version was published as the appendix to the
TeX
ware
technical report, available from the TeX Users Group. Howard Trickey
originally ported it to Unix.
