DESCRIPTION

LDoc, a documentation generator for Lua compatible to LuaDoc.

OPTIONS

-d, --dir

(default docs) output directory

-o, --output

(default 'index') output name

-v, --verbose

be verbose during doc generation

-a, --all

show local functions, etc, in docs

-q, --quiet

suppress output

-m, --module

module docs as text

-s, --style

(default !) directory for style sheet (ldoc.css)

-l, --template

(default !) directory for template (ldoc.ltp)

-p, --project

(default ldoc) project name

-t, --title

(default Reference) page title

-f, --format

(default plain) formatting, valid options are markdown, discount or plain

-b, --package

(default .) top-level package basename (needed for module(...))

-x, --ext

(default html) output file extension

-c, --config

(default config.ld) configuration name

-i, --ignore

ignore any 'no doc comment or no module' warnings

-X, --not_luadoc

break LuaDoc compatibility. Descriptions may continue after tags.

-D, --define

(default none) set a flag to be used in config.ld

-C, --colon

use colon style

-B, --boilerplate

ignore first comment in source files

-M, --merge

allow module merging

-S, --simple

no return or params, no summary

-O, --one

one-column output layout

--dump

debug output dump

--filter

(default none) filter output as Lua data (e.g pl.pretty.dump)

--tags

(default none) show all references to given tags, comma-separated

<file>

(string) source file or directory containing source

EXAMPLES

ldoc .

reads options from a config.ld file in the same directory

ldoc -c path/to/myconfig.ld .

reads options from path/to/myconfig.ld

AUTHOR

This manpage was written for Debian by Julian Wollrath and may be used by others.