diff --git a/Doc/Manual/pandoc_filter.py b/Doc/Manual/pandoc_filter.py
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..81b259936
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Doc/Manual/pandoc_filter.py
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+"""
+Pandoc filter that changes pandoc default HTML output for codeblocks
+to match SWIG's format:
+
+
+
+"""
+
+from pandocfilters import toJSONFilter, stringify, walk, RawBlock, Div, Str
+import sys
+import json
+import re
+
+global the_title
+
+def html(x):
+ return RawBlock('html', x)
+
+SHELL = re.compile(r"\s*[$]")
+
+def codeblocks(key, value, format, meta):
+ if key == 'CodeBlock':
+ [[id, classes, kvs], contents] = value
+ if format == "html" or format == "html5":
+ newcontents = [html('\n' + contents + '
')]
+
+ if contents.startswith("$"):
+ classes.append("shell")
+
+ if len(classes) == 0:
+ classes.append("code")
+
+ return Div([id, classes, kvs], newcontents)
+ if key == 'Header':
+ if value[0] == 1:
+ global the_title
+ the_title = stringify(value)
+ value[1][0] = ""
+
+def set_title(unMeta):
+ global the_title
+ unMeta["title"] = {"t": "MetaInlines", "c": [Str(the_title)]}
+
+def __toJSONFilter(action):
+ doc = json.loads(sys.stdin.read())
+ if len(sys.argv) > 1:
+ format = sys.argv[1]
+ else:
+ format = ""
+ altered = walk(doc, action, format, doc[0]['unMeta'])
+ set_title(altered[0]['unMeta'])
+ json.dump(altered, sys.stdout)
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+ __toJSONFilter(codeblocks)
diff --git a/Doc/Manual/pandoc_template.html b/Doc/Manual/pandoc_template.html
index 390bfc51c..d8cbc12ad 100644
--- a/Doc/Manual/pandoc_template.html
+++ b/Doc/Manual/pandoc_template.html
@@ -1,56 +1,10 @@
-
-
+
+
-
-
-
-$for(author-meta)$
-
-$endfor$
-$if(date-meta)$
-
-$endif$
- $if(title-prefix)$$title-prefix$ - $endif$$if(pagetitle)$$pagetitle$$endif$
-$if(highlighting-css)$
-
-$endif$
-$for(css)$
-
-$endfor$
-$if(math)$
- $math$
-$endif$
-$for(header-includes)$
- $header-includes$
-$endfor$
+
+ $pagetitle$
-$for(include-before)$
-$include-before$
-$endfor$
-$if(title)$
-
-$endif$
-$if(toc)$
-
-$toc$
-
-$endif$
-
$body$
-
-$for(include-after)$
-$include-after$
-$endfor$