Lua Cookbook

This is the Lua Cookbook, a community-edited collection of useful advice and "recipes" for working with Lua.

The book is edited using Sphinx. Sphinx requires Python 2.4 or higher to be installed (if you don't know, run python --version and see what prints out).

To install Sphinx, if you have setuptools or distribute installed, you can just run easy_install Sphinx. If you run Linux, your distribution may provide a package for it (which is probably named something along the lines of python-sphinx.)

Warning

There is also a search engine called Sphinx, please do not confuse the two.

To compile the book to HTML, change to the appropriate language directory (right now there is only en, but in the future we may translate into other languages) and run make html. The generated files will be in build/html. The Makefile has other options for generating LaTeX source code, ePub books, and other tasks, run make without options to see those.

The content of this book is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license - see the COPYRIGHT file for details.

For information on contributing, visit our project on Github.