diff --git a/docs/manuals/en/new_main_reference/convert_all_tex_files_to_rst.sh b/docs/manuals/en/new_main_reference/convert_all_tex_files_to_rst.sh
index 26fed63cf2e..a6e940ca352 100755
--- a/docs/manuals/en/new_main_reference/convert_all_tex_files_to_rst.sh
+++ b/docs/manuals/en/new_main_reference/convert_all_tex_files_to_rst.sh
@@ -10,14 +10,12 @@ PHASE=${1:-ALL}
 FILES=${2:-$(cat destfiles.txt | grep -v ^#)}
 
 for destfile in $FILES; do
-  file=`echo $destfile | sed 's#.*/##g'`
-  chapterdir=`echo $destfile | sed 's#/.*##g'`
-  filebase=`basename $destfile .tex`
+    file=`echo $destfile | sed 's#.*/##g'`
+    chapterdir=`echo $destfile | sed 's#/.*##g'`
+    filebase=`basename $destfile .tex`
 
-  mkdir -p ${WORK_DIR}${chapterdir}
-  mkdir -p ${TARGET_DIR}${chapterdir}
-
-  if [ "${chapterdir}" != "developers" ]; then
+    mkdir -p ${WORK_DIR}${chapterdir}
+    mkdir -p ${TARGET_DIR}${chapterdir}
 
     if [ $PHASE == "ALL" ] || [ $PHASE == "prepandoc" ]; then
         printf "%-50s (%s)\n" "$destfile" "prepandoc"
@@ -37,11 +35,4 @@ for destfile in $FILES; do
         printf "%s\n\n" "   It was automatically converted from the corresponding .tex file" >> ${TARGET_DIR}${chapterdir}/${filebase}.rst
         cat ${WORK_DIR}${chapterdir}/${filebase}.rst | ./latex-scan.py --standalone >> ${TARGET_DIR}${chapterdir}/${filebase}.rst 2>${WORK_DIR}${chapterdir}/${filebase}.latex-scan.log || exit "failed to post convert ${WORK_DIR}${chapterdir}/${filebase}.rst"
     fi
- else
-   # developers files are only copied over
-    if [ $PHASE == "ALL" ]; then
-        #cp ../developers/source/${file} ${TARGET_DIR}${chapterdir}
-        echo "not doing: cp ../developers/source/${file} ${TARGET_DIR}${chapterdir}"
-    fi
- fi
 done
diff --git a/docs/manuals/en/new_main_reference/destfiles.txt b/docs/manuals/en/new_main_reference/destfiles.txt
index c26493475c1..518488a91af 100755
--- a/docs/manuals/en/new_main_reference/destfiles.txt
+++ b/docs/manuals/en/new_main_reference/destfiles.txt
@@ -62,24 +62,3 @@ appendix-j/troubleshooting.tex
 appendix-k/debug.tex
 appendix-l/releasenotes.tex
 appendix-m/license.tex
-
-# developer guide (only copying from developers guide)
-developers/releasenotes.rst
-developers/api.rst
-developers/catalog.rst
-developers/daemonprotocol.rst
-developers/directorConsole.rst
-developers/fdl.rst
-developers/file.rst
-developers/generaldevel.rst
-developers/mediaformat.rst
-developers/mempool.rst
-developers/messages.rst
-developers/netprotocol.rst
-developers/platformsupport.rst
-developers/pluginAPI.rst
-developers/porting.rst
-developers/regression.rst
-developers/smartall.rst
-developers/storage.rst
-developers/tls-techdoc.rst
diff --git a/docs/manuals/en/new_main_reference/source/developers/generaldevel.rst b/docs/manuals/en/new_main_reference/source/developers/generaldevel.rst
index 677d7ee36f0..211d1985986 100644
--- a/docs/manuals/en/new_main_reference/source/developers/generaldevel.rst
+++ b/docs/manuals/en/new_main_reference/source/developers/generaldevel.rst
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ We can use seqdiag:
 We can use nwdiag:
 
 .. nwdiag::
+
    {
      network dmz {
          address = "210.x.x.x/24"
@@ -147,7 +148,8 @@ We can use plantuml:
 
 
 History
-~~~~~~~
+-------
+
 
 Bareos is a fork of the open source project Bacula version 5.2. In 2010
 the Bacula community developer Marco van Wieringen started to collect
@@ -165,7 +167,7 @@ maintain a list of contributors to Bacula (until the time we’ve started
 the fork) and Bareos in our AUTHORS file.
 
 Contributions
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+-------------
 
 Contributions to the Bareos project come in many forms: ideas,
 participation in helping people on the bareos-users email list,
@@ -173,7 +175,7 @@ packaging Bareos binaries for the community, helping improve the
 documentation, and submitting code.
 
 Patches
-~~~~~~~
+-------
 
 Subject to the copyright assignment described below, your patches should
 be sent in **git format-patch** format relative to the current contents