Hi Steven, The Swift book is also available on the web here: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/Swift_Programming_Language/
The reference for the swift standard library is available on the web here: https://developer.apple.com/reference/swift We don't currently ship offline copies of the documentation outside of Xcode. Jack > On Dec 18, 2016, at 10:46 PM, Jon Shier via swift-users > <swift-users@swift.org> wrote: > > http://swiftdoc.org is a good online reference, though not always completely > up to date (just mostly). > > > Jon > >> On Dec 18, 2016, at 9:44 PM, Steven Harms via swift-users >> <swift-users@swift.org> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I've been playing with Swift in Linux contexts, but I was wondering, how is >> one meant to consult reference work? >> >> The Swift language book is written in iBooks...so I don't have access to >> that in Linux. I'd love for there to be a PDF equivalent that I could leave >> on the Linux environment to work with. >> >> Alternatively, is there a rich HTML download of the API? I'm used to Perl >> and Ruby which shipped rich HTML pages that allowed you to research the API >> sans network connection. >> >> I hate to think an IDE is required to use a language e.g. XCode. Surely we >> should be able to code without an IDE's completion. I may be tempting the >> nursing home by thinking vim and good docs should cut it :blush:. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Steven >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> swift-users mailing list >> swift-users@swift.org >> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users > > _______________________________________________ > swift-users mailing list > swift-users@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users
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