Re: Is there any way to access a single page version of the specification?

Thanks for the clarification. FYI, the HTML WG provides the following in
it's intro to the HTML5 spec (arguably one of the longest W3C specs): "This
specification is available in the following formats: single page
HTML<http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/single-page.html>
, multipage HTML <http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/index.html>, web developer
edition <http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-author/>."

I was able to create a bunch of pdfs and then merge them. I like pdf for
spec reading because the Acrobat Search command creates in instant
concordance showing every use of a term in a document. This is invaluable
for understanding if a term is used consistently throughout a spec.

The term I was interested in in this case was "metadata". The open
annotation spec strikes me as an extremely generation purpose spec for
(external) metadata description. I was curious as to whether the spec
discussed annotation as a kind of metadata. I was mildly surprised that it
did not.

Thanks again.

-- Nick

Nick Gall
Phone: +1.781.608.5871
Other Contact Info: http://bit.ly/nickgall


On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 6:16 AM, Stian Soiland-Reyes <
soiland-reyes@cs.manchester.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We split the documentation to facilitate easier reading and navigation,
> and to emphasise the modularity approach. We did not intend to make it
> difficult to read or print out offline, so for that we apologize.
>
> For the future we can look into mechanisms to generate a compound single
> HTML for the purposed you stated, as long as we don't introduce diversity;
> while the specification is considered stable now there might still be a few
> changes in the future, particularly around JSON-LD which specification is
> in a similar stabilising phase.
>
> --
> Stian Soiland-Reyes
> myGrid team, University of Manchester
> http://soiland-reyes.com/stian/work
> On 19 Mar 2013 14:22, "Nick Gall" <nick.gall@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> How can I access a complete representation of the entire specification on
>> a single HTML page? The URL http://www.openannotation.org/spec/core/ refers
>> to a representation of the spec that is broken into segments connected by
>> “Next” links. I want to produce a pdf of the spec so I can read it offline,
>> search it, etc. Most (all?) other W3C specs (used to) offer a single page
>> version. Has there been some W3C policy change that intends to make it more
>> difficult to copy the full spec?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> -- Nick
>>
>> PS Please reply to me as well as the list, since I don't subscribe to the
>> list yet.
>>
>> Nick Gall
>> Phone: +1.781.608.5871
>> Other Contact Info: http://bit.ly/nickgall
>>
>