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You can build the pdf yourself from the LaTeX source: https://github.com/cplusplus/draft

Or get the latest public draft from https://wg21.link/standard

Or an html version: http://eelis.net/c++draft/

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Thanks. I just like having an official (not draft) copy. I'm a nerd.

I just built from the LaTeX source and it's 32 pages longer than the public draft in the second link from 6 weeks ago. Maybe just additional descriptive language, but...

Reading https://github.com/cplusplus/draft, it seems you had to generate figures from their dot source.

If so, the result may depend on your installation (probably even if you use the same version of GraphViz but a different OS and/or set of fonts), and that can affect pagination.

Also, are you sure you built for the same paper size? A4 vs US letter could explain the difference.

Well, you can see changes as recently as two days ago.

https://github.com/cplusplus/draft/commit/83e302d3bb6a5f8855...

In one way, the last draft is more canonical than the official spec - if you are talking chapter and verse to another person about the spec, odds are good that they are referring to the last public draft also.

The C++ draft and published standard are so similar, the only parties I imagine would need the published copy are gcc frontend developers, technical managers at IBM, etc. As an individual who gets into the deep dark crevices of C++, I've never needed the tiny details the published standard offers. They are mostly typographical.

iirc even gcc devs don't have it and use the draft

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