"Dietmar Kuehl" <> wrote in message news: m...
> "John Brown" <_nospam@_nospam.com> wrote:
> > I was also told by another committee member sometime ago (his name
> > escapes me off-hand) that members even have an HTML version but the ISO
> > itself is responsible for its release as a ".pdf" file.
>
> There is indeed a HTML version used by committee members. However, this
> version is not always 100% accurate and is occasionally missing some stuff
> or has mangled text.
Not that the 1999 PDF was without mangling. There were a few places
where the original draft section names leaked into the final document and
countless places where extraneous hyphens were inserted into words (bad
word breaks).
>
> Another complication is the production of the HTML in the first place: the
> standard document is still maintained in troff.
There's only one person who understands troff, and he's dead. Most of
us who remember just stick \c into the documents when necessary without
any reasonable understanding