Bug#450875: patgen: Does not seem to generate anything useful

[Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>]

retitle 450875 patgen: Can't read existing files
thanks

On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 10:32:15PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> Package: texlive-extra-utils
> Version: 2007-14
> 
> Hi,
> 
> It seems that patgen is not really working very good.  On a list with
> 250K words, the best I can get is to make is a list of 10 level 1
> patterns.  It should be able to generate atleast a few 100 of that.

I have no idea what changed exactly, but it now works.  So forget about
this part.

> It also doesn't seem to properly parse existing files.  I had to change
> the file to only contain what's instead the \patterns{

This is still true.


Kurt