lua-fort

• Github

Contents

• Features
• Differences from libfort
• Roadmap

Manual

• lua-fort
• Changelog

Classes

• fort

Examples

• 1-simple-table.lua
• 1a-simple-table.lua
• 2-custom-table.lua
• 3-complex-layout.lua
• 4-fill-table.lua
• 5-beautiful-table.lua
• 6-print-styles.lua
• 8-math-table.lua

lua-fort

A lua wrapper around the libfort library.

Features

• No external libraries required
• Tiny implementation
  • Easy to integrate into an embedded lua environment
• Resizes cells to content of tables
• Cusomization of Appearance
  • Text colors
  • Border style
  • Background style
• Different Methods of filling in the formatted table
• UTF-8 support*
  • Handles all utf8 characters as 1-width for simplicity

The fort module directly maps the API from c to lua with the FT_/ft_ prefixes.

* libfort treats all UTF-8 as 1 codepoint will occupy one position by default. lua-fort does not not currently support the libfort callback to determine presentation length

Differences from libfort

• No wchar support (Not needed for lua)
• ft_printf/ft_printf_ln aren’t used directly.
  • lua’s string.format method is used to do formatting
  • String splitting on column separator is done in lua
• all functions are utf8 compatible

Roadmap

There are a few things that I would like to add with lua fort. This list is in chronological order.

• [x] lua ≥ 5.1 support
• [x] CI testing across versions
• [x] Documentation site
• [x] UTF-8 support
• [x] Unit testing
• [x] Examples (from libfort)
• [x] First release on luarocks
• [ ] Detailed usage documentation
• [ ] Stronger unit testing