diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index b8ec740e05..ab143da8be 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -3420,7 +3420,7 @@ man/%.7: man/%.xml
 man/%.8: man/%.xml
 	$(XSLTPROC_PROCESS_MAN)
 
-man/%.html: man/%.xml
+man/%.html: man/%.xml man/custom-html.xsl
 	$(XSLTPROC_PROCESS_HTML)
 
 CLEANFILES += \
diff --git a/man/custom-html.xsl b/man/custom-html.xsl
index df16d08718..906ddc5572 100644
--- a/man/custom-html.xsl
+++ b/man/custom-html.xsl
@@ -23,6 +23,27 @@
 
 <xsl:import href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/html/docbook.xsl"/>
 
+<!-- translate man page references to links to html pages -->
+<xsl:template match="citerefentry">
+  <a>
+    <xsl:attribute name="href">
+      <xsl:value-of select="refentrytitle"/><xsl:text>.html</xsl:text>
+    </xsl:attribute>
+    <xsl:call-template name="inline.charseq"/>
+  </a>
+</xsl:template>
+
+<!-- add Index link at top of page -->
+<xsl:template name="user.header.content">
+  <a>
+    <xsl:attribute name="href">
+      <xsl:text>index.html</xsl:text>
+    </xsl:attribute>
+    <xsl:text>Index </xsl:text>
+  </a>
+  <hr/>
+</xsl:template>
+
 <!-- Switch things to UTF-8, ISO-8859-1 is soo yesteryear -->
 <xsl:output method="html" encoding="UTF-8" indent="no"/>