[tex-live] Bug#450875: patgen: Does not seem to generate anything useful
Kurt Roeckx
kurt at roeckx.be
Sun Nov 18 00:56:36 CET 2007
On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 05:39:27PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
> patgen can only read files containing ONLY \patterns{...}
>
> As opposed to what? I wouldn't expect patgen to parse .tex files.
>
> As far as I can tell from a quick glance at patgen.web, it reads a
> hyph-en-ated word list and (optionally) existing patterns (and an
> auxiliary "translate" file), and spits out new patterns.
The manpage is atleast misleading. It says:
For a (very) long example of patgen's output, see
$TEXMFMAIN/tex/generic/hyphen/hyphen.tex, which contains the
patterns TeX uses for English.
And:
[...] the pattern_file containing previously-generated
patterns (if any) for a particular language
This makes me assume that patgen can read (and write) such a file.
Kurt
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