The lualibs generic package


Lualibs is a collection of Lua modules useful for general programming.

This work is based on lua modules shipped with ConTeXt, and are made available
this package to be used independent of ConTeXt.

This package is developed on <http://github.com/mpg/lualibs>, see the 'NEWS'
file for version history.

Installation
------------

Here are the recommended installation methods (preferred first).
The methods "commented out" are currently not available.

1. If you are using TeX Live 2010 or later, use 'tlmgr install lualibs'.
   Alternatively, try your (TeX or Linux) distribution's package management system.

2. a. Grab lualibs.tds.zip on CTAN.
   b. Unzip it at the root of one or your TDS trees.
   c. You may need to update some filename database after this, see your TeX
      distribution's manual for details.

3. a. Grab the sources from CTAN or github.
   b. Run 'make install TEXMFROOT=/path/to/texmf'.
   c. See 2c.

Manifest
--------

Source files:
    lualibs.dtx
    lualibs-aux.lua
    lualibs-boolean.lua
    lualibs-dimen.lua
    lualibs-dir.lua
    lualibs-file.lua
    lualibs-io.lua
    lualibs-lpeg.lua
    lualibs-math.lua
    lualibs-md5.lua
    lualibs-number.lua
    lualibs-os.lua
    lualibs-set.lua
    lualibs-string.lua
    lualibs-table.lua
    lualibs-unicode.lua
    lualibs-url.lua
    lualibs-utils.lua
    README
    Makefile
    NEWS

Derived files:
    lualibs.lua
    lualibs.pdf

License
-------

This work and the derived files are under the Creative Commons CC0 license.

See the full text at

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode

and a FAQ at

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0

The files lualibs-*.lua are under the GNU GPLv2 license. Their legal notice
starts by:

"
Copyright PRAGMA ADE / ConTeXt Development Team
"