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 (More details)

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

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 UTF-8 compatible

Roadmap

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

• lua ≥ 5.1 support
• CI testing across versions
• Documentation site
• UTF-8 support
• Unit testing
• Examples (from libfort)
• First release on luarocks