mtx-patterns(1)

📦 version 2026.0, in alpine 3.24

💅 mtx-patterns(1) — ConTeXt Pattern File Management

okay so bestie, welcome to mtx-patterns, which lives in the ConTeXt corner of your man pages ✨ it's literally the pattern-file management era of your life and honestly? iconic.

🌸 NAME 🌸

mtx-patterns — ConTeXt Pattern File Management 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

mtxrun --script patterns [ OPTIONS ...  ] [ FILENAMES ]

like, that's the whole vibe check right there 🫶 mtxrun calls the patterns script, you toss in some OPTIONS ... if you're feeling it, and maybe some FILENAMES if you've got opinions.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

ConTeXt Pattern File Management 💖

no cap, that's the whole description the original gives us — it's a short king of a manpage and we respect it. the energy is "we manage ConTeXt pattern files" and it ate.

👑 OPTIONS 👑

here's the full roster, no skips, we don't gatekeep 💅

  • --convert — generates context language files, and it's mnemonic driven, meaning if you don't hand it anything specific then it just does all of them. main character energy fr ✨
  • --check — checks a pattern file, or, if you didn't give it a file, it checks the ones context actually uses. it's giving "i'll just verify everything then" 😭
  • --path — the source path, aka where your hyph-foo.tex files are chillin' 🏠
  • --destination — the destination path, aka where the stuff ends up 🎯
  • --specification — additional patterns, and the format is literally like this: =cy,hyph-cy,welsh so keep it exact, don't freestyle it 🙈
  • --compress — compresses the data, squeeze it, make it smol 🍓
  • --words — updates the words in the given file 📝
  • --hyphenate — shows hyphenated words (and yes, the original spells it "hypephenated", which is honestly a mood and we're keeping the lore 💀)

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

want more info about ConTeXt and all the tools that come with it? the original says you can find it at all of these, so here you go, no gatekeeping 💜:

🌈 real talk though: those URLs and that mailing list address are copy-exact from the original, so type them carefully, bestie — don't let autocorrect fumble your link 💀

and that's the page!! slay. this was mtx-patterns, version 0.20, dated 01-01-2026, and honestly it served exactly what it needed to serve 😌🎀 periodt.

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