diff --git a/genmanpages b/genmanpages
index e2f0a62..0fd9aa4 100755
--- a/genmanpages
+++ b/genmanpages
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ for d in $BINARIES; do
 		if [ "$d" = "$HASMAN3" ]; then
 			mkdir -p $BASEDIR/$d/man/$l/man3/
 		fi
-		mkdir -p $BASEDIR/$d/$l/html/
+		mkdir -p $BASEDIR/$d/$l/$HTMLDIR/
 	done
 	mkdir -p $BASEDIR/$d/man/man1/
 	if [ "$d" = "$HASMAN3" ]; then
@@ -181,45 +181,66 @@ po4a -k 0 $CONFIG
 
 for d in $BINARIES; do
 	for P in $XMLPACKAGES; do
-		for X in $XMLFILE; do
-			XML_CATALOG_FILES="/etc/xml/catalog" \
-			xsltproc -o $BASEDIR/$P/man/ --nonet $XSLFILE $XMLDIR/$X
-		done
-		if [ "$d" = "$HASMAN3" ]; then
-			mv $BASEDIR/$P/man/*.3 $BASEDIR/$P/man/man3/
-		else
-			rm -f $BASEDIR/$P/man/*.3
+		if [ $d = $P ]; then
+			for X in $XMLFILE; do
+				echo "Processing untranslated files for $d . . ."
+				XML_CATALOG_FILES="/etc/xml/catalog" \
+				xsltproc -o $BASEDIR/$P/man/ --nonet $XSLFILE $XMLDIR/$X
+				if [ "$d" = "$HASMAN3" ]; then
+					mv $BASEDIR/$P/man/*.3 $BASEDIR/$P/man/man3/
+				else
+					rm -f $BASEDIR/$P/man/*.3
+				fi
+				mv $BASEDIR/$P/man/*.1 $BASEDIR/$P/man/man1/
+			done
 		fi
-		mv $BASEDIR/$P/man/*.1 $BASEDIR/$P/man/man1/
 	done
 	for POD in $PODPACKAGES; do
-		pod2man $PODFILE > $BASEDIR/$POD/man/man1/$PODFILE.1
+		if [ $d = "$POD" ]; then
+			echo "Processing untranslated files for $POD . . ."
+			pod2man $PODFILE > $BASEDIR/$POD/man/man1/$PODFILE.1
+		fi
 	done
-	xsltproc -o $BASEDIR/$d/html/ --nonet $HTMLXSL $XMLDIR/$HTMLFILE
+	if [ -n "$HTMLDIR" ]; then
+		xsltproc -o $BASEDIR/$d/$HTMLDIR/ --nonet $HTMLXSL $XMLDIR/$HTMLFILE
+	fi
 	for l in $LANGS; do
 		for P in $XMLPACKAGES; do
-			for X in $XMLFILE; do
-				XML_CATALOG_FILES="/etc/xml/catalog" \
-				xsltproc -o $BASEDIR/$P/man/ --nonet $XSLFILE $XMLDIR/$l/$X
-			done
-			if [ "$d" = "$HASMAN3" ]; then
-				mv $BASEDIR/$P/man/*.3 $BASEDIR/$P/man/$l/man3/
-			else
-				rm -f $BASEDIR/$P/man/*.3
+			if [ $d = "$P" ]; then
+				echo "Processing $l translations for $d . . ."
+				for X in $XMLFILE; do
+					XML_CATALOG_FILES="/etc/xml/catalog" \
+					xsltproc -o $BASEDIR/$P/man/ --nonet $XSLFILE $XMLDIR/$l/$X
+				done
+				if [ "$d" = "$HASMAN3" ]; then
+					mv $BASEDIR/$P/man/*.3 $BASEDIR/$P/man/$l/man3/
+				else
+					rm -f $BASEDIR/$P/man/*.3
+				fi
+				mv $BASEDIR/$P/man/*.1 $BASEDIR/$P/man/$l/man1/
 			fi
-			mv $BASEDIR/$P/man/*.1 $BASEDIR/$P/man/$l/man1/
 		done
 		for POD in $PODPACKAGES; do
-			pod2man $BASEDIR/pod/$l/$PODFILE > $BASEDIR/$POD/man/$l/man1/$PODFILE.1
+			if [ $d = "$POD" ]; then
+				echo "Processing $l translations for $POD . . ."
+				echo "pod2man $BASEDIR/pod/$l/$PODFILE > $BASEDIR/$POD/man/$l/man1/$PODFILE.1"
+				pod2man $BASEDIR/pod/$l/$PODFILE > $BASEDIR/$POD/man/$l/man1/$PODFILE.1
+			fi
 		done
-		mkdir -p $BASEDIR/$d/html/$l/
-		xsltproc -o $BASEDIR/$d/html/$l/ --nonet $HTMLXSL $XMLDIR/$l/$HTMLFILE
-	done
-	for i in `ls $BASEDIR/$d/html/*.html`; do
-		iconv -t utf-8 -f iso8859-1 $i > $BASEDIR/html/tmp
-		sed < $BASEDIR/html/tmp > $i -e 's:charset=ISO-8859-1:charset=UTF-8:'
-	done
-	rm -f $BASEDIR/html/tmp
+		if [ -n "$HTMLDIR" ]; then
+			mkdir -p $BASEDIR/$d/$HTMLDIR/$l/
+			xsltproc -o $BASEDIR/$d/$HTMLDIR/$l/ --nonet $HTMLXSL $XMLDIR/$l/$HTMLFILE
+		fi
+		done
+		if [ -n "$HTMLDIR" ]; then
+			for i in `ls $BASEDIR/$d/$HTMLDIR/*.html`; do
+				iconv -t utf-8 -f iso8859-1 $i > $BASEDIR/$HTMLDIR/tmp
+				sed < $BASEDIR/$HTMLDIR/tmp > $i -e 's:charset=ISO-8859-1:charset=UTF-8:'
+			done
+		fi
+	if [ -n "$HTMLDIR" ]; then
+		rm -f $BASEDIR/$HTMLDIR/tmp
+	fi
 done
 
 for l in $LANGS; do
diff --git a/manpages.conf b/manpages.conf
index 7d75f10..897f398 100644
--- a/manpages.conf
+++ b/manpages.conf
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ PODFILE="em_multistrap"
 # the binary packages using POD
 PODPACKAGES="multistrap"
 # html output (subdirectory of BASEDIR)
-HTMLDIR="html"
+HTMLDIR=""
 # html DocBook file
-HTMLFILE="emdebian-rootfs.1.xml"
+HTMLFILE=""
 # the XSL file to use for Docbook XSL
 HTMLXSL="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/html/chunk.xsl"