diff --git a/build/docs.sh b/build/docs.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+rm ../doc/reference.html
+echo "<style type='text/css'> .type { background-color: grey } td { border: black solid 1px; padding: 3px;  } table { border-collapse: collapse } .classref { margin-left: 20px; }</style>" >> ../doc/reference.html
+for i in Map Layer Layer.HTTPRequest Layer.Grid Layer.WMS Layer.KaMap Layer.EventPane Layer.Google Layer.VirtualEarth Layer.Markers Layer.Text Layer.GeoRSS Layer.Boxes Icon Marker Marker.Box Tile Tile.Image Tile.WFS Control Control.LayerSwitcher Control.MouseDefaults Control.MouseToolbar Control.PanZoom Control.PanZoomBar Control.Permalink Control.Scale; do
+cat ../doc/$i.txt | perl -pe "s/^(.*?) -- (.*?) -- (.*?)$/  <tr><td>\1<\/td><td>\2<\/td><td>\3<\/td><\/tr>/" | perl -pe "s/^(  \* )?(.*?) -- (.*?)$/  <tr><td>\2<\/td><td>\3<\/td><\/tr>/" | perl -pe "s/^  \* (.*)$/  <\/table>\n\n<h3>\1<\/h3>\n  <table>/" | perl -pe "s/{OpenLayers.(.*?)\|(.*?)}/<a href=\"#OpenLayers.\$1\" title=\"OpenLayers.\$1\">\2<\/a>/g" | perl -pe "s/{OpenLayers.(.*?)}/<a href=\"#OpenLayers.\$1\" title=\"OpenLayers.\$1\">OpenLayers.\$1<\/a>/g" | perl -pe "s/{([A-Za-z]+?)\|(.+?)}/<span class=\"type\" title=\"\\1\">\2<\/span>/" | perl -pe "s/{([A-Za-z]+?)}/<span class=\"type\" title=\"\$1\">\$1<\/span>/g" | perl -pe "s/^\* (.*)$/<\/table>\n<h2>\1<\/h2>\n<table>/" | perl -pe "s/^OpenLayers\.(.*)$/<h1><a name=\"OpenLayers.\$1\">OpenLayers.\$1<\/a><\/h1><div class='classref'>/" >> ../doc/reference.html; echo "</table></div>" >> ../doc/reference.html
+done