diff --git a/doc/userguide/Makefile b/doc/userguide/Makefile
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+#
+# Quick and dirty makefile
+#
+
+userguide.html: userguide.xml
+	xsltproc --novalid --xinclude --nonet \
+		-o userguide.html \
+		--stringparam html.stylesheet userguide.css \
+		http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/html/docbook.xsl \
+		userguide.xml
+
+clean:
+	rm -f userguide.html
diff --git a/doc/userguide/userguide.css b/doc/userguide/userguide.css
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+body {
+  background-color: #ffffff;
+  color: #333333;
+  font-family: "ArialMT", "Verdana", "Arial", "Helvetica", sans-serif;
+  font-size: 14px;
+  line-height: 18px;
+  margin: 2em;
+}
+
+.command {
+  font-family: "Courier New", "Courier", monospace;
+  font-weight: normal;
+}
+
+.note {
+  background-color: #ddeedd;
+  margin: 1em 0 1em 0;
+  padding: 0.5em 1em 0.5em 1em;
+  -moz-border-radius: 10px;
+  -webkit-border-radius: 10px;
+}
+
+.screen {
+  background-color: #ffffee;
+  border: 1px solid #ddddaa;
+  padding: 0.25em 1em 0.25em 1em;
+  margin: 1em 0 1em 0;
+  -moz-border-radius: 10px;
+  -webkit-border-radius: 10px;
+}
+
+.section {
+	padding-left: 1em;
+}
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