title: Is the F# language reference documentation available in an offline format (PDF, CHM)?
body: <p>I've found <a href="http://cs.hubfs.net/forums/post/11179.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">several</a> <a href="http://cs.hubfs.net/forums/post/4325.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">posts</a> on <a href="http://cs.hubfs.net/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">hubFS</a> of people asking if there is, or will be, offline documentation for F#. These posts haven't been answered. So I want to give it a shot and ask the same question here on SO.</p>
  
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  <p><strong>Where I've looked for offline documentation so far:</strong></p>
  
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  <li><p>The <a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=151924" rel="nofollow noreferrer">April 2010 CTP release of Visual F# (version 2.0)</a> is available for VS 2008, but it comes without an offline help.</p></li>
  <li><p>There's a question on SO about <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/723017">offline documentation for various programming languages</a>, but F# isn't mentioned there at the time of this writing.</p></li>
  <li><p>There is of course Microsoft's <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd233154.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">F# language reference documentation (available on MSDN)</a>, which could be downloaded for offline browsing using e.g. <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>wget</code></a>.</p></li>
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  <p><strong>Question:</strong></p>
  
  <p>Does anyone know whether any "official" offline documentation is on the way, anytime soon?</p>
  
  <p>(And related to this, even tough it might be hard to answer objectively: Would it be reasonable to expect that F# <em>won't</em> undergo ECMA or ISO standardization, ie. there likely won't be a standards document describing the language?)</p>