PATGEN(1) General Commands Manual PATGEN(1) (NAME) patgen - TeX (SYNOPSIS) patgen dictionary_file pattern_file patout_file translate_file (DESCRIPTION) patgen dictionary_file pattern_file ( ) ( TeX ) patout_file ( ) . translate_file left_hyphen_min right_hyphen_min TeX () <<>> . . patgen pattmp.n n . patgen initex(1) . patgen $TEXMFMAIN/tex/generic/hyphen/hyphen.tex ( TeX Live) TeX . TeX Live ( ) ( ). . (FILE FORMATS) (Letters) initex TeX ( ) ('.' ) . . patgen . (Dictionary file) . ( =1) . . '-' '*' '.' ( ) <<>> ( ) <<>> ( ) '*' '-' '.' . (Pattern file) patgen. TeX . : % this is an invalid pattern file for TeX. \patterns{% ... } <<...>>. (Translate file) left_hyphen_min - right_hyphen_min - <<>> '-' '*' '.' . TeX . <<>> : ( <<>> ) . left_hyphen_min=2, right_hyphen_min=3, a...z A...Z. (Terminal input) translate_file pattern_file patgen . hyph_start hyph_finish . hyph_start pattern_file . pat_start pat_finish good weight bad weight threshold . ( 'y' 'Y' ) . (FILES) $TEXMFMAIN/tex/generic/hyphen/hyphen.tex Donald Knuth Frank Liang. $TEXMFMAIN/tex/generic/hyphen/zerohyph.tex . (SEE ALSO) Frank Liang and Peter Breitenlohner, patgen.web. Frank Liang, Word hy-phen-a-tion by com-puter, STAN-CS-83-977, Stanford University Ph.D. thesis, 1983, http://tug.org/docs/liang Donald E. Knuth, The TeXbook, Addison-Wesley, Appendix H. https://ctan.org/pkg/hyphenex TUGboat TUGboat . https://ctan.org/pkg/hyph-utf8 . https://ctan.org/pkg/ushyph Gerard Kuiken. https://ctan.org/tex-archive/language CTAN . https://tug.org/TUGboat/Contents/listkeyword.html#CatTAGMultilingualDocumentProcessing TUGboat . (AUTHORS) Frank Liang . Peter Breitenlohner TeX 3 . TeXware . Howard Trickey Unix . : https://lists.tug.org/tex-k Web2C 2026 10 January 2026 PATGEN(1)