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4.4.3 Patgen: Creating hyphenation patterns
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Patgen creates hyphenation patterns from dictionary files for use with
TeX.  Synopsis:

     patgen DICTIONARY PATTERNS OUTPUT TRANSLATE

   Each argument is a filename.  No path searching is done.  The output
is written to the file OUTPUT.

   In addition, Patgen prompts interactively for other values.

   For more information, see 'Word hy-phen-a-tion by com-puter' by Frank
Liang (Note: References), and also the 'patgen.web' source file.

   The only options are '-help' and '-version' (Note: Common options).