# patgen - info - [phpMan]

## File: web2c.info,  Node: patgen invocation,  Prev: TCX files,  Up: Languages and hyphenation

### 5.4.3 Patgen: Creating hyphenation patterns

## 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-put-er' by
Frank Liang (*note References::), and also the 'patgen.web' source file.

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