diff --git a/Documentation/manpage-base.xsl b/Documentation/manpage-base.xsl
deleted file mode 100644
index a264fa6160..0000000000
--- a/Documentation/manpage-base.xsl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-<!-- manpage-base.xsl:
-     special formatting for manpages rendered from asciidoc+docbook -->
-<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
-		version="1.0">
-
-<!-- these params silence some output from xmlto -->
-<xsl:param name="man.output.quietly" select="1"/>
-<xsl:param name="refentry.meta.get.quietly" select="1"/>
-
-<!-- convert asciidoc callouts to man page format;
-     git.docbook.backslash and git.docbook.dot params
-     must be supplied by another XSL file or other means -->
-<xsl:template match="co">
-	<xsl:value-of select="concat(
-			      $git.docbook.backslash,'fB(',
-			      substring-after(@id,'-'),')',
-			      $git.docbook.backslash,'fR')"/>
-</xsl:template>
-<xsl:template match="calloutlist">
-	<xsl:value-of select="$git.docbook.dot"/>
-	<xsl:text>sp&#10;</xsl:text>
-	<xsl:apply-templates/>
-	<xsl:text>&#10;</xsl:text>
-</xsl:template>
-<xsl:template match="callout">
-	<xsl:value-of select="concat(
-			      $git.docbook.backslash,'fB',
-			      substring-after(@arearefs,'-'),
-			      '. ',$git.docbook.backslash,'fR')"/>
-	<xsl:apply-templates/>
-	<xsl:value-of select="$git.docbook.dot"/>
-	<xsl:text>br&#10;</xsl:text>
-</xsl:template>
-
-</xsl:stylesheet>
diff --git a/Documentation/manpage-normal.xsl b/Documentation/manpage-normal.xsl
index c9c68a0542..a9c7ec69f4 100644
--- a/Documentation/manpage-normal.xsl
+++ b/Documentation/manpage-normal.xsl
@@ -3,10 +3,24 @@
 <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
 		version="1.0">
 
-<xsl:import href="manpage-base.xsl"/>
 
-<!-- these are the normal values for the roff control characters -->
-<xsl:param name="git.docbook.backslash">\</xsl:param>
-<xsl:param name="git.docbook.dot"	>.</xsl:param>
+<!-- these params silence some output from xmlto -->
+<xsl:param name="man.output.quietly" select="1"/>
+<xsl:param name="refentry.meta.get.quietly" select="1"/>
+
+<!-- convert asciidoc callouts to man page format -->
+<xsl:template match="co">
+	<xsl:value-of select="concat('\fB(',substring-after(@id,'-'),')\fR')"/>
+</xsl:template>
+<xsl:template match="calloutlist">
+	<xsl:text>.sp&#10;</xsl:text>
+	<xsl:apply-templates/>
+	<xsl:text>&#10;</xsl:text>
+</xsl:template>
+<xsl:template match="callout">
+	<xsl:value-of select="concat('\fB',substring-after(@arearefs,'-'),'. \fR')"/>
+	<xsl:apply-templates/>
+	<xsl:text>.br&#10;</xsl:text>
+</xsl:template>
 
 </xsl:stylesheet>