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/usr/bin/substrings.pl

A hyphenation library using TeX-style hyphenation patterns

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substrings.pl - convert TeX (Patgen) hyphenation patterns to Libhnj format
(A utility for finding substring embeddings in patterns)
usage: substrings.pl infile outfile [encoding [lefthyphenmin [righthyphenmin]]]

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