Somehow make the spec searchable (e.g. by generating PDF version)

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I can't imagine this is a new issue but I can't find an old one, so.

Please make the specification searchable (available as a single page as a quick fix?) or, better, figure out how to make a proper index. The language is complex enough that questions about its behavior come up a lot for users, and it's often quite hard to find the relevant section in the spec. For example, I had a question last night about import priority and found it in the introduction to identifiers, names and scopes in the 2.9 spec PDF and it happens to still be there (but not in the section on import statements, which I found via the TOC, which is where I looked first).

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Imported From: https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-10218?orig=1
Reporter: Rob Norris (rnorris)

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@SethTisue said (edited on Mar 6, 2017 5:01:40 PM UTC):
issue and preceding discussion (on PDF generation specifically, not indexing more broadly) at scala/docs.scala-lang#516

it would be wonderful if some volunteer tackled this.

[bjornregnell]

In an educational context, I think students learning Scala and also teachers designing Scala courses, in addition to a searchable document, would also greatly benefit from a pdf with the language spec readable off-line and printable from a paginated format.

[atiqsayyed]

Hi,
Is this still open? If yes, can i pick it up?

[lrytz]

@atiqsayyed yes, you're more than welcome to work on this!

[som-snytt]

I volunteered on gitter today, to make sure there wouldn't be a permanent record.

[atiqsayyed]

@som-snytt sorry to have missed on this issue, can we discuss about it to make sure we understand what we have to do here?

[som-snytt]

I took a glance but won't have time until a three-day weekend that is not US Labor Day. Halloween is on a Tuesday this year.

[bjornregnell]

It's very good to be able to search but also nice to be able to print it and view it in a paginated form in a pdf-viewer, so for my Scala teaching efforts here at Lund University, a pdf version would be really valuable. It would be really cool if you both could join forces an achieve some progress on this issue, @som-snytt @atiqsayyed