Please provide the C# Specification in PDF instead of DOCX

[dotnet]

Please provide the C# Specification in PDF instead of DOCX

[dsaf]

Docx is an open standard and there is a free viewer available:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=4

http://superuser.com/questions/141435/is-there-anything-to-open-docx-documents-on-linux-ubuntu

[paulomorgado]

I'd which there was a website we could link to.

[am11]

Why not simply embed the docx via onedrive in GitHub repo's wiki?

Something like:

<iframe
  src="https://onedrive.live.com/embed?cid=..."
  width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0"
  scrolling="yes"
></iframe>

I have seen this practice used on http://isocpp.org/ (for excel files) and some WordPress blogs.

upload > right-click > embed > generate ..

[nvivo]

@dsaf this has nothing to do with open formats, it has to do with how easily I can look at it, and PDF is much more common than DOCX.

A website would also be great. Most modern languages have them instead of a document, and would be even easier to read than a PDF.

[JoergWMittag]

Scala has moved its spec into a set of LaTeX-enhanced Markdown files right into the compiler repository: https://github.com/scala/scala/tree/2.12.x/spec The website generated from this looks nice: http://scala-lang.org/files/archive/spec/2.11/

Converting the existing spec would probably be a week's worth of admittedly tedious and very boring work for an intern.

Some benefits other than availability in an easy-to-convert format (Markdown can be converted to pretty much anything these days, the embedded LaTeX makes it slightly harder, but a quick skimming of the existing C# spec seems to indicate that LaTeX might not even be needed) are that spec changes can be submitted and reviewed as pull requests just like code, and they can be taken directly from proposals, because those are already written in Markdown anyway.

[MadsTorgersen]

Long term we are merging the Microsoft C# spec with the ECMA Standard, which is provided in PDF.