From bc0e681d4af0dca39f2bdc8d228460b5aeccb390 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: nsz Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 12:58:47 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] readme --- README | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..64f9c24 --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +the c standard working draft documents are only +available in a hard to handle pdf format +http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/documents + +this project provides plain text and html versions +of the c99 and the c1x standards + +the conversion is done using pdftotext -layout +with some cleanups, see translit.sh and tohtml.sh +scripts + +the html version is best viewed in a 120 char wide +terminal with terminal based browser +(original text layout is used, structuring the text +properly would take considerable amount of effort) + +features: + internal links + one page, easy to grep ascii only text + +unfortunately some information is lost/garbled +(most notably mathematical notations around +floating point specs, and diff marks wrt previous +standards) -- 2.20.1