<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Hi Steven,</div><div><br></div><div>The Swift book is also available on the web here: <a href="https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/Swift_Programming_Language/">https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/Swift_Programming_Language/</a></div><div><br></div><div>The reference for the swift standard library is available on the web here: <a href="https://developer.apple.com/reference/swift">https://developer.apple.com/reference/swift</a></div><div><br></div><div>We don't currently ship offline copies of the documentation outside of Xcode.</div><div><br><div>Jack</div></div><div><br>On Dec 18, 2016, at 10:46 PM, Jon Shier via swift-users <<a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org">swift-users@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><a href="http://swiftdoc.org" class="">http://swiftdoc.org</a> is a good online reference, though not always completely up to date (just mostly).<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jon</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 18, 2016, at 9:44 PM, Steven Harms via swift-users <<a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org" class="">swift-users@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="gmail_msg">Hi,<div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">I've been playing with Swift in Linux contexts, but I was wondering, how is one meant to consult reference work?</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">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.</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">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. </div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_msg">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:.</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_msg">Thanks,</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_msg">Steven</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class=""></div></div><br class=""><br class="">
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