diff --git a/src/app/dbw.ml b/src/app/dbw.ml
index c15c186..0569275 100644
--- a/src/app/dbw.ml
+++ b/src/app/dbw.ml
@@ -5,7 +5,12 @@ open Dibrawi_std
 let output_buffers html_name html_buffer err_buffer = (
     ignore (Unix.system ("mkdir -p " ^ (Filename.dirname html_name)));
     File.with_file_out html_name (fun o ->
-        Buffer.output_buffer o html_buffer
+        let html_content = 
+            Dibrawi.Templating.html_default
+                ~toc:"TOC TOC TOC"
+                ~menu:"MENU MENU MENU"
+                ~title:html_name (Buffer.contents html_buffer) in
+        output_string o html_content
     );
     let s = Buffer.contents err_buffer in
     if s <> "" then (eprintf p"Errors for %s:\n%s\n" html_name s;);
diff --git a/src/lib/dibrawi.ml b/src/lib/dibrawi.ml
index 0e7e628..4a9ed85 100644
--- a/src/lib/dibrawi.ml
+++ b/src/lib/dibrawi.ml
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 
 open Dibrawi_std
 
+module Templating = Dibrawi_templating
+
 module Info = struct
     let version = 0
     let version_string = sprintf p"The Dibrawi library, v %d" version
@@ -332,6 +334,7 @@ module Bibliography = struct
     let bibtex = Sebib.BibTeX.str
 end
 
+
 module Brtx_transform = struct
 
     (* TODO handle errors better *)
@@ -345,8 +348,7 @@ module Brtx_transform = struct
         let url_hook =
             Special_paths.rewrite_url ~from in
         Bracetax.Transform.brtx_to_html
-            ~writer ~doc:true ?title
-            ?filename ~img_hook:url_hook ~url_hook ~input_char ();
+            ~writer ?filename ~img_hook:url_hook ~url_hook ~input_char ();
         (html_buffer, err_buffer)
     )
 
diff --git a/src/lib/dibrawi_templating.ml b/src/lib/dibrawi_templating.ml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7e5a200
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/dibrawi_templating.ml
@@ -0,0 +1,163 @@
+open Dibrawi_std
+
+type html_template =
+    ?menu:string -> ?toc:string -> ?title:string -> ?footer:string -> string -> string
+
+let html_default
+?(menu="") ?(toc="")  ?(title="") ?(footer="") content = (
+    let css =
+        "
+
+div.sidepane {
+    position:fixed;
+    font-size: 80%;
+    /* float_on_right */
+    float: right;
+    width: 30%;
+    margin-left: 65%;
+    padding: 1em;
+}
+div.content {
+    margin-left: 5%;
+    border-right: 1px solid gray;
+    padding: 1em;
+    width: 55%;
+}
+
+
+        body {
+            background-color:#ffffff;
+            color: black;
+            font-family: sans-serif;
+            min-width: 80em;
+            text-align: justify;
+            font-size: 80%;
+        }
+
+        div.p {
+            padding-bottom: 0em;
+            /* The debug border: */
+            /* border: thin silver solid; */
+        }
+        div.p + div.p { padding-top: 0.5em; }
+
+        div.header {
+            text-align: center;
+            /* border: #3E0C0C solid; */
+            padding-top:    2.1em;
+            padding-bottom: 2.05em;
+            margin-bottom: 3em;
+        }
+        h1 {           font-size: 300%; font-variant: small-caps; }
+        div.authors {  font-size: 150%; line-height: 200%; }
+        div.subtitle { font-size: 140%; font-style: italic; }
+        h2 {           font-size: 180%; }
+        h3 {           font-size: 150%; padding-top: 0.1em;padding-bottom: 0.05em;}
+        h4 {           font-size: 130%; padding-top: 0.1em;padding-bottom: 0.05em;}
+        h5 {           font-size: 105%; padding-top: 0.1em;padding-bottom: 0.05em;}
+
+        a {
+            text-decoration:none;
+        }
+        /* http://www.vision.to/add-a-small-icon-to-your-links-css-only.php */
+        a[href$='']:hover {text-decoration: underline;}
+        a[href$='.pdf']:hover {text-decoration: underline;}
+        a[href$=''] { color: #831825;}
+        a[href$='.pdf'] { color: #831825;}
+
+        tt {
+            font-family: monospace;
+            font-size: 120%;
+            color: #003300;
+        }
+
+        code, pre {
+            font-family: monospace;
+            /* letter-spacing: 1px; */
+            color: #003300;
+        }
+        pre {
+            /* border: dashed;
+            border-width: thin;
+            border-color: #dddddd;*/
+            position: relative;
+            /*background-color: #eeeeee;*/
+            left: 5%;
+            width: 70%;
+            clear: left;
+            /*padding-bottom: 1em;*/
+        }
+
+        ul, ol {
+            padding-top: 0em;
+            padding-bottom: 0em;
+            margin-top: 0em;
+            margin-bottom: 0em;
+            /* The debug border: */
+            /* border: thin silver solid; */
+        }
+
+/*********** Tables  ***********/
+table.tablefigure {
+    margin-right:auto;
+    margin-left: auto;
+    border-collapse: collapse;
+    min-width: 80%;
+    margin-bottom: 1em;
+}
+caption.tablefigure {
+    /* margin-left:1em; */
+    /* min-width: 30%; */
+    caption-side:bottom;
+}
+/*caption.tablefigure:after { content: \" [\" attr(id) \"]\"; color: figid_color; }*/
+div.tablefigure {
+    text-align: center;
+    font-size:90%;
+    border: thin #959595 solid;
+    margin: 0.5em;
+    padding: 0.5em;
+    /*float: right;
+    width: 50%;
+    margin-right: 0em;
+    padding: 0.5em;*/
+}
+        "
+    in
+
+    sprintf p"\n\
+<!DOCTYPE html\n\
+    PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN\"\n\
+    \"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd\">\n\
+    <html xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\" xml:lang=\"en\" lang=\"en\">\n\
+    <!-- Generated with BraceTax -->\n\
+    <head>\n\
+    <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n\
+    <title>%s</title>\n\
+    <style>\n\
+%s\n\
+    </style>\n\
+    </head>\n\
+    <body>\n\
+    <div class=\"sidepane\">\n\
+        <b>%s</b><br/>\n\
+        %s\n\
+        <hr/>\n\
+        %s\n\
+        <hr/>\n\
+        %s\n\
+    </div>\n\
+    <div class=\"content\">\n\
+        %s\n\
+    </div>\n\
+</body></html>\n\
+"
+title css title menu toc footer content
+)
+
+(* Generates a BIG closure !! *)
+let load str = (
+    failwith "Templating.load not implemented"
+)
+
+
diff --git a/src/lib/libdibrawi.mllib b/src/lib/libdibrawi.mllib
index dd60db2..426c75c 100644
--- a/src/lib/libdibrawi.mllib
+++ b/src/lib/libdibrawi.mllib
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 Dibrawi_std
+Dibrawi_templating
 Dibrawi