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 and some automated as well as manual cleanups n????.txt: ascii version n????.pre.html: html version with links but without formatting (original layout) best viewed in a 120 char wide terminal and text based browser n????.html: html version with formatted text (partly manually done) unfortunately some information is lost/garbled (eg. emphasized and bold text, mathematical notations around floating point specs, and diff marks wrt previous standards)