diff --git a/doc/manual/default.nix b/doc/manual/default.nix
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+{ pkgs, options, config, version, revision, extraSources ? [] }:
+
+with pkgs;
+
+let
+  lib = pkgs.lib;
+
+  # Remove invisible and internal options.
+  optionsListVisible = lib.filter (opt: opt.visible && !opt.internal) (lib.optionAttrSetToDocList options);
+
+  # Replace functions by the string <function>
+  substFunction = x:
+    if builtins.isAttrs x then lib.mapAttrs (name: substFunction) x
+    else if builtins.isList x then map substFunction x
+    else if lib.isFunction x then "<function>"
+    else x;
+
+  # Generate DocBook documentation for a list of packages. This is
+  # what `relatedPackages` option of `mkOption` from
+  # ../../../lib/options.nix influences.
+  #
+  # Each element of `relatedPackages` can be either
+  # - a string:  that will be interpreted as an attribute name from `pkgs`,
+  # - a list:    that will be interpreted as an attribute path from `pkgs`,
+  # - an attrset: that can specify `name`, `path`, `package`, `comment`
+  #   (either of `name`, `path` is required, the rest are optional).
+  genRelatedPackages = packages:
+    let
+      unpack = p: if lib.isString p then { name = p; }
+                  else if lib.isList p then { path = p; }
+                  else p;
+      describe = args:
+        let
+          title = args.title or null;
+          name = args.name or (lib.concatStringsSep "." args.path);
+          path = args.path or [ args.name ];
+          package = args.package or (lib.attrByPath path (throw "Invalid package attribute path `${toString path}'") pkgs);
+        in "<listitem>"
+        + "<para><literal>${lib.optionalString (title != null) "${title} aka "}pkgs.${name} (${package.meta.name})</literal>"
+        + lib.optionalString (!package.meta.available) " <emphasis>[UNAVAILABLE]</emphasis>"
+        + ": ${package.meta.description or "???"}.</para>"
+        + lib.optionalString (args ? comment) "\n<para>${args.comment}</para>"
+        # Lots of `longDescription's break DocBook, so we just wrap them into <programlisting>
+        + lib.optionalString (package.meta ? longDescription) "\n<programlisting>${package.meta.longDescription}</programlisting>"
+        + "</listitem>";
+    in "<itemizedlist>${lib.concatStringsSep "\n" (map (p: describe (unpack p)) packages)}</itemizedlist>";
+
+  optionsListDesc = lib.flip map optionsListVisible (opt: opt // {
+    # Clean up declaration sites to not refer to the NixOS source tree.
+    declarations = map stripAnyPrefixes opt.declarations;
+  }
+  // lib.optionalAttrs (opt ? example) { example = substFunction opt.example; }
+  // lib.optionalAttrs (opt ? default) { default = substFunction opt.default; }
+  // lib.optionalAttrs (opt ? type) { type = substFunction opt.type; }
+  // lib.optionalAttrs (opt ? relatedPackages && opt.relatedPackages != []) { relatedPackages = genRelatedPackages opt.relatedPackages; });
+
+  # We need to strip references to /nix/store/* from options,
+  # including any `extraSources` if some modules came from elsewhere,
+  # or else the build will fail.
+  #
+  # E.g. if some `options` came from modules in ${pkgs.customModules}/nix,
+  # you'd need to include `extraSources = [ pkgs.customModules ]`
+  prefixesToStrip = map (p: "${toString p}/") ([ ../../.. ] ++ extraSources);
+  stripAnyPrefixes = lib.flip (lib.fold lib.removePrefix) prefixesToStrip;
+
+  # Custom "less" that pushes up all the things ending in ".enable*"
+  # and ".package*"
+  optionLess = a: b:
+    let
+      ise = lib.hasPrefix "enable";
+      isp = lib.hasPrefix "package";
+      cmp = lib.splitByAndCompare ise lib.compare
+                                 (lib.splitByAndCompare isp lib.compare lib.compare);
+    in lib.compareLists cmp a.loc b.loc < 0;
+
+  # Customly sort option list for the man page.
+  optionsList = lib.sort optionLess optionsListDesc;
+
+  # Convert the list of options into an XML file.
+  optionsXML = builtins.toFile "options.xml" (builtins.toXML optionsList);
+
+  optionsDocBook = runCommand "options-db.xml" {} ''
+    optionsXML=${optionsXML}
+    if grep /darwin/modules $optionsXML; then
+      echo "The manual appears to depend on the location of Darwin, which is bad"
+      echo "since this prevents sharing via a channel.  This is typically"
+      echo "caused by an option default that refers to a relative path (see above"
+      echo "for hints about the offending path)."
+      exit 1
+    fi
+    ${buildPackages.libxslt.bin}/bin/xsltproc \
+      --stringparam revision '${revision}' \
+      -o intermediate.xml ${./options-to-docbook.xsl} $optionsXML
+    ${buildPackages.libxslt.bin}/bin/xsltproc \
+      -o "$out" ${./postprocess-option-descriptions.xsl} intermediate.xml
+  '';
+
+  sources = lib.sourceFilesBySuffices ./. [".xml"];
+
+  modulesDoc = builtins.toFile "modules.xml" ''
+    <section xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" id="modules">
+    ${(lib.concatMapStrings (path: ''
+      <xi:include href="${path}" />
+    '') (lib.catAttrs "value" (config.meta.doc or [])))}
+    </section>
+  '';
+
+  generatedSources = runCommand "generated-docbook" {} ''
+    mkdir $out
+    ln -s ${modulesDoc} $out/modules.xml
+    ln -s ${optionsDocBook} $out/options-db.xml
+    printf "%s" "${version}" > $out/version
+  '';
+
+  copySources =
+    ''
+      cp -prd $sources/* . || true
+      ln -s ${generatedSources} ./generated
+      chmod -R u+w .
+    '';
+
+  toc = builtins.toFile "toc.xml"
+    ''
+      <toc role="chunk-toc">
+        <d:tocentry xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" linkend="book-darwin-manual"><?dbhtml filename="index.html"?>
+          <d:tocentry linkend="ch-options"><?dbhtml filename="options.html"?></d:tocentry>
+          <d:tocentry linkend="ch-release-notes"><?dbhtml filename="release-notes.html"?></d:tocentry>
+        </d:tocentry>
+      </toc>
+    '';
+
+  manualXsltprocOptions = toString [
+    "--param section.autolabel 1"
+    "--param section.label.includes.component.label 1"
+    "--stringparam html.stylesheet 'style.css overrides.css highlightjs/mono-blue.css'"
+    "--stringparam html.script './highlightjs/highlight.pack.js ./highlightjs/loader.js'"
+    "--param xref.with.number.and.title 1"
+    "--param toc.section.depth 3"
+    "--stringparam admon.style ''"
+    "--stringparam callout.graphics.extension .svg"
+    "--stringparam current.docid manual"
+    "--param chunk.section.depth 0"
+    "--param chunk.first.sections 1"
+    "--param use.id.as.filename 1"
+    "--stringparam generate.toc 'book toc appendix toc'"
+    "--stringparam chunk.toc ${toc}"
+  ];
+
+  manual-combined = runCommand "darwin-manual-combined"
+    { inherit sources;
+      nativeBuildInputs = [ buildPackages.libxml2.bin buildPackages.libxslt.bin ];
+      meta.description = "The NixOS manual as plain docbook XML";
+    }
+    ''
+      ${copySources}
+
+      xmllint --xinclude --output ./manual-combined.xml ./manual.xml
+      xmllint --xinclude --noxincludenode \
+         --output ./man-pages-combined.xml ./man-pages.xml
+
+      # outputs the context of an xmllint error output
+      # LEN lines around the failing line are printed
+      function context {
+        # length of context
+        local LEN=6
+        # lines to print before error line
+        local BEFORE=4
+
+        # xmllint output lines are:
+        # file.xml:1234: there was an error on line 1234
+        while IFS=':' read -r file line rest; do
+          echo
+          if [[ -n "$rest" ]]; then
+            echo "$file:$line:$rest"
+            local FROM=$(($line>$BEFORE ? $line - $BEFORE : 1))
+            # number lines & filter context
+            nl --body-numbering=a "$file" | sed -n "$FROM,+$LEN p"
+          else
+            if [[ -n "$line" ]]; then
+              echo "$file:$line"
+            else
+              echo "$file"
+            fi
+          fi
+        done
+      }
+
+      function lintrng {
+        xmllint --debug --noout --nonet \
+          --relaxng ${docbook5}/xml/rng/docbook/docbook.rng \
+          "$1" \
+          2>&1 | context 1>&2
+          # ^ redirect assumes xmllint doesn’t print to stdout
+      }
+
+      lintrng manual-combined.xml
+      lintrng man-pages-combined.xml
+
+      mkdir $out
+      cp manual-combined.xml $out/
+      cp man-pages-combined.xml $out/
+    '';
+
+  olinkDB = runCommand "manual-olinkdb"
+    { inherit sources;
+      nativeBuildInputs = [ buildPackages.libxml2.bin buildPackages.libxslt.bin ];
+    }
+    ''
+      xsltproc \
+        ${manualXsltprocOptions} \
+        --stringparam collect.xref.targets only \
+        --stringparam targets.filename "$out/manual.db" \
+        --nonet \
+        ${docbook_xsl_ns}/xml/xsl/docbook/xhtml/chunktoc.xsl \
+        ${manual-combined}/manual-combined.xml
+
+      cat > "$out/olinkdb.xml" <<EOF
+      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+      <!DOCTYPE targetset SYSTEM
+        "file://${docbook_xsl_ns}/xml/xsl/docbook/common/targetdatabase.dtd" [
+        <!ENTITY manualtargets SYSTEM "file://$out/manual.db">
+      ]>
+      <targetset>
+        <targetsetinfo>
+            Allows for cross-referencing olinks between the manpages
+            and manual.
+        </targetsetinfo>
+
+        <document targetdoc="manual">&manualtargets;</document>
+      </targetset>
+      EOF
+    '';
+
+in rec {
+  inherit generatedSources;
+
+  # The NixOS options in JSON format.
+  optionsJSON = runCommand "options-json"
+    { meta.description = "List of NixOS options in JSON format";
+    }
+    ''
+      # Export list of options in different format.
+      dst=$out/share/doc/darwin
+      mkdir -p $dst
+
+      cp ${builtins.toFile "options.json" (builtins.unsafeDiscardStringContext (builtins.toJSON
+        (builtins.listToAttrs (map (o: { name = o.name; value = removeAttrs o ["name" "visible" "internal"]; }) optionsList))))
+      } $dst/options.json
+
+      mkdir -p $out/nix-support
+      echo "file json $dst/options.json" >> $out/nix-support/hydra-build-products
+    ''; # */
+
+  # Generate the NixOS manual.
+  manualHTML = runCommand "darwin-manual-html"
+    { inherit sources;
+      nativeBuildInputs = [ buildPackages.libxml2.bin buildPackages.libxslt.bin ];
+      meta.description = "The Darwin manual in HTML format";
+      allowedReferences = ["out"];
+    }
+    ''
+      # Generate the HTML manual.
+      dst=$out/share/doc/darwin
+      mkdir -p $dst
+      xsltproc \
+        ${manualXsltprocOptions} \
+        --stringparam target.database.document "${olinkDB}/olinkdb.xml" \
+        --stringparam id.warnings "1" \
+        --nonet --output $dst/ \
+        ${docbook_xsl_ns}/xml/xsl/docbook/xhtml/chunktoc.xsl \
+        ${manual-combined}/manual-combined.xml \
+        |& tee xsltproc.out
+      grep "^ID recommended on" xsltproc.out &>/dev/null && echo "error: some IDs are missing" && false
+      rm xsltproc.out
+
+      mkdir -p $dst/images/callouts
+      cp ${docbook_xsl_ns}/xml/xsl/docbook/images/callouts/*.svg $dst/images/callouts/
+
+      cp ${./style.css} $dst/style.css
+      cp ${./overrides.css} $dst/overrides.css
+      cp -r ${pkgs.documentation-highlighter} $dst/highlightjs
+
+      mkdir -p $out/nix-support
+      echo "nix-build out $out" >> $out/nix-support/hydra-build-products
+      echo "doc manual $dst" >> $out/nix-support/hydra-build-products
+    ''; # */
+
+  # Alias for backward compatibility. TODO(@oxij): remove eventually.
+  manual = manualHTML;
+
+  # Index page of the NixOS manual.
+  manualHTMLIndex = "${manualHTML}/share/doc/darwin/index.html";
+
+  manualEpub = runCommand "darwin-manual-epub"
+    { inherit sources;
+      buildInputs = [ libxml2.bin libxslt.bin zip ];
+    }
+    ''
+      # Generate the epub manual.
+      dst=$out/share/doc/darwin
+
+      xsltproc \
+        ${manualXsltprocOptions} \
+        --stringparam target.database.document "${olinkDB}/olinkdb.xml" \
+        --nonet --xinclude --output $dst/epub/ \
+        ${docbook_xsl_ns}/xml/xsl/docbook/epub/docbook.xsl \
+        ${manual-combined}/manual-combined.xml
+
+      mkdir -p $dst/epub/OEBPS/images/callouts
+      cp -r ${docbook_xsl_ns}/xml/xsl/docbook/images/callouts/*.svg $dst/epub/OEBPS/images/callouts # */
+      echo "application/epub+zip" > mimetype
+      manual="$dst/darwin-manual.epub"
+      zip -0Xq "$manual" mimetype
+      cd $dst/epub && zip -Xr9D "$manual" *
+
+      rm -rf $dst/epub
+
+      mkdir -p $out/nix-support
+      echo "doc-epub manual $manual" >> $out/nix-support/hydra-build-products
+    '';
+
+
+  # Generate the NixOS manpages.
+  manpages = runCommand "darwin-manpages"
+    { inherit sources;
+      nativeBuildInputs = [ buildPackages.libxml2.bin buildPackages.libxslt.bin ];
+      allowedReferences = ["out"];
+    }
+    ''
+      # Generate manpages.
+      mkdir -p $out/share/man
+      xsltproc --nonet \
+        --maxdepth 6000 \
+        --param man.output.in.separate.dir 1 \
+        --param man.output.base.dir "'$out/share/man/'" \
+        --param man.endnotes.are.numbered 0 \
+        --param man.break.after.slash 1 \
+        --stringparam target.database.document "${olinkDB}/olinkdb.xml" \
+        ${docbook_xsl_ns}/xml/xsl/docbook/manpages/docbook.xsl \
+        ${manual-combined}/man-pages-combined.xml
+    '';
+
+}
+
diff --git a/doc/manual/man-pages.xml b/doc/manual/man-pages.xml
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index 00000000..2490f639
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+++ b/doc/manual/man-pages.xml
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+<reference xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+           xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+           xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
+ <title>Darwin Reference Pages</title>
+ <info>
+  <author><personname><firstname>Daiderd</firstname><surname>Jordan</surname></personname>
+   <contrib>Author</contrib>
+  </author>
+  <copyright><year>2016-2019</year><holder>Daiderd Jordan</holder>
+  </copyright>
+ </info>
+
+ <refentry>
+  <refmeta>
+   <refentrytitle><filename>configuration.nix</filename>
+   </refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
+   <refmiscinfo class="source">Darwin</refmiscinfo>
+ <!-- <refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo> -->
+  </refmeta>
+  <refnamediv>
+   <refname><filename>configuration.nix</filename>
+   </refname><refpurpose>Darwin system configuration specification</refpurpose>
+  </refnamediv>
+  <refsection>
+   <title>Description</title>
+   <para>
+    The file <filename>configuration.nix</filename> contains the
+    declarative specification of your Darwin system configuration. The command
+    <command>darwin-rebuild</command> takes this file and realises the system
+    configuration specified therein.
+   </para>
+  </refsection>
+  <refsection>
+   <title>Options</title>
+   <para>
+    You can use the following options in <filename>configuration.nix</filename>.
+   </para>
+   <xi:include href="./generated/options-db.xml"
+               xpointer="configuration-variable-list" />
+  </refsection>
+ </refentry>
+</reference>
diff --git a/doc/manual/manual.xml b/doc/manual/manual.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a334342d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/manual/manual.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<book xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+      version="5.0"
+      xml:id="book-darwin-manual">
+ <info>
+  <title>Darwin Manual</title>
+  <subtitle>Version <xi:include href="./generated/version" parse="text" />
+  </subtitle>
+ </info>
+ <preface xml:id="preface">
+  <title>Preface</title>
+  <para>Nix modules for darwin.</para>
+ </preface>
+ <chapter xml:id="sec-options">
+  <title>Configuration Options</title>
+  <xi:include href="./generated/options-db.xml"
+              xpointer="configuration-variable-list" />
+ </chapter>
+</book>
+
diff --git a/doc/manual/options-to-docbook.xsl b/doc/manual/options-to-docbook.xsl
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..09f5e081
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/manual/options-to-docbook.xsl
@@ -0,0 +1,229 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+
+<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
+                xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
+                xmlns:str="http://exslt.org/strings"
+                xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+                xmlns:nixos="tag:nixos.org"
+                xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+                extension-element-prefixes="str"
+                >
+
+  <xsl:output method='xml' encoding="UTF-8" />
+
+  <xsl:param name="revision" />
+  <xsl:param name="program" />
+
+  <xsl:template match="/expr/list">
+    <appendix xml:id="appendix-configuration-options">
+      <title>Configuration Options</title>
+      <variablelist xml:id="configuration-variable-list">
+        <xsl:for-each select="attrs">
+          <xsl:variable name="id" select="concat('opt-', str:replace(str:replace(str:replace(str:replace(attr[@name = 'name']/string/@value, '*', '_'), '&lt;', '_'), '>', '_'), '?', '_'))" />
+          <varlistentry>
+            <term xlink:href="#{$id}">
+              <xsl:attribute name="xml:id"><xsl:value-of select="$id"/></xsl:attribute>
+              <option>
+                <xsl:value-of select="attr[@name = 'name']/string/@value" />
+              </option>
+            </term>
+
+            <listitem>
+
+              <nixos:option-description>
+                <para>
+                  <xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes"
+                                select="attr[@name = 'description']/string/@value" />
+                </para>
+              </nixos:option-description>
+
+              <xsl:if test="attr[@name = 'type']">
+                <para>
+                  <emphasis>Type:</emphasis>
+                  <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
+                  <xsl:value-of select="attr[@name = 'type']/string/@value"/>
+                  <xsl:if test="attr[@name = 'readOnly']/bool/@value = 'true'">
+                    <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
+                    <emphasis>(read only)</emphasis>
+                  </xsl:if>
+                </para>
+              </xsl:if>
+
+              <xsl:if test="attr[@name = 'default']">
+                <para>
+                  <emphasis>Default:</emphasis>
+                  <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
+                  <xsl:apply-templates select="attr[@name = 'default']" mode="top" />
+                </para>
+              </xsl:if>
+
+              <xsl:if test="attr[@name = 'example']">
+                <para>
+                  <emphasis>Example:</emphasis>
+                  <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
+                  <xsl:choose>
+                    <xsl:when test="attr[@name = 'example']/attrs[attr[@name = '_type' and string[@value = 'literalExample']]]">
+                      <programlisting><xsl:value-of select="attr[@name = 'example']/attrs/attr[@name = 'text']/string/@value" /></programlisting>
+                    </xsl:when>
+                    <xsl:otherwise>
+                      <xsl:apply-templates select="attr[@name = 'example']" mode="top" />
+                    </xsl:otherwise>
+                  </xsl:choose>
+                </para>
+              </xsl:if>
+
+              <xsl:if test="attr[@name = 'relatedPackages']">
+                <para>
+                  <emphasis>Related packages:</emphasis>
+                  <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
+                  <xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes"
+                                select="attr[@name = 'relatedPackages']/string/@value" />
+                </para>
+              </xsl:if>
+
+              <xsl:if test="count(attr[@name = 'declarations']/list/*) != 0">
+                <para>
+                  <emphasis>Declared by:</emphasis>
+                </para>
+                <xsl:apply-templates select="attr[@name = 'declarations']" />
+              </xsl:if>
+
+              <xsl:if test="count(attr[@name = 'definitions']/list/*) != 0">
+                <para>
+                  <emphasis>Defined by:</emphasis>
+                </para>
+                <xsl:apply-templates select="attr[@name = 'definitions']" />
+              </xsl:if>
+
+            </listitem>
+
+          </varlistentry>
+
+        </xsl:for-each>
+
+      </variablelist>
+    </appendix>
+  </xsl:template>
+
+
+  <xsl:template match="*" mode="top">
+    <xsl:choose>
+      <xsl:when test="string[contains(@value, '&#010;')]">
+<programlisting>
+<xsl:text>''
+</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select='str:replace(string/@value, "${", "&apos;&apos;${")' /><xsl:text>''</xsl:text></programlisting>
+      </xsl:when>
+      <xsl:otherwise>
+        <literal><xsl:apply-templates /></literal>
+      </xsl:otherwise>
+    </xsl:choose>
+  </xsl:template>
+
+
+  <xsl:template match="null">
+    <xsl:text>null</xsl:text>
+  </xsl:template>
+
+
+  <xsl:template match="string">
+    <xsl:choose>
+      <xsl:when test="(contains(@value, '&quot;') or contains(@value, '\')) and not(contains(@value, '&#010;'))">
+        <xsl:text>''</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select='str:replace(@value, "${", "&apos;&apos;${")' /><xsl:text>''</xsl:text>
+      </xsl:when>
+      <xsl:otherwise>
+        <xsl:text>"</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="str:replace(str:replace(str:replace(str:replace(@value, '\', '\\'), '&quot;', '\&quot;'), '&#010;', '\n'), '$', '\$')" /><xsl:text>"</xsl:text>
+      </xsl:otherwise>
+    </xsl:choose>
+  </xsl:template>
+
+
+  <xsl:template match="int">
+    <xsl:value-of select="@value" />
+  </xsl:template>
+
+
+  <xsl:template match="bool[@value = 'true']">
+    <xsl:text>true</xsl:text>
+  </xsl:template>
+
+
+  <xsl:template match="bool[@value = 'false']">
+    <xsl:text>false</xsl:text>
+  </xsl:template>
+
+
+  <xsl:template match="list">
+    [
+    <xsl:for-each select="*">
+      <xsl:apply-templates select="." />
+      <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
+    </xsl:for-each>
+    ]
+  </xsl:template>
+
+
+  <xsl:template match="attrs[attr[@name = '_type' and string[@value = 'literalExample']]]">
+    <xsl:value-of select="attr[@name = 'text']/string/@value" />
+  </xsl:template>
+
+
+  <xsl:template match="attrs">
+    {
+    <xsl:for-each select="attr">
+      <xsl:value-of select="@name" />
+      <xsl:text> = </xsl:text>
+      <xsl:apply-templates select="*" /><xsl:text>; </xsl:text>
+    </xsl:for-each>
+    }
+  </xsl:template>
+
+
+  <xsl:template match="derivation">
+    <replaceable>(build of <xsl:value-of select="attr[@name = 'name']/string/@value" />)</replaceable>
+  </xsl:template>
+
+  <xsl:template match="attr[@name = 'declarations' or @name = 'definitions']">
+    <simplelist>
+      <xsl:for-each select="list/string">
+        <member><filename>
+          <!-- Hyperlink the filename either to the NixOS Subversion
+          repository (if it’s a module and we have a revision number),
+          or to the local filesystem. -->
+          <xsl:choose>
+            <xsl:when test="not(starts-with(@value, '/'))">
+              <xsl:choose>
+                <xsl:when test="$revision = 'local'">
+                  <xsl:attribute name="xlink:href">https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin/blob/master/<xsl:value-of select="@value"/></xsl:attribute>
+                </xsl:when>
+                <xsl:otherwise>
+                  <xsl:attribute name="xlink:href">https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin/blob/<xsl:value-of select="$revision"/>/<xsl:value-of select="@value"/></xsl:attribute>
+                </xsl:otherwise>
+              </xsl:choose>
+            </xsl:when>
+            <xsl:otherwise>
+              <xsl:attribute name="xlink:href">file://<xsl:value-of select="@value"/></xsl:attribute>
+            </xsl:otherwise>
+          </xsl:choose>
+          <!-- Print the filename and make it user-friendly by replacing the
+          /nix/store/<hash> prefix by the default location of darwin
+          sources. -->
+          <xsl:choose>
+            <xsl:when test="not(starts-with(@value, '/'))">
+              &lt;<xsl:value-of select="@value"/>&gt;
+            </xsl:when>
+            <xsl:otherwise>
+              <xsl:value-of select="@value" />
+            </xsl:otherwise>
+          </xsl:choose>
+        </filename></member>
+      </xsl:for-each>
+    </simplelist>
+  </xsl:template>
+
+
+  <xsl:template match="function">
+    <xsl:text>λ</xsl:text>
+  </xsl:template>
+
+
+</xsl:stylesheet>
diff --git a/doc/manual/overrides.css b/doc/manual/overrides.css
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4c7d4a31
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/manual/overrides.css
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+.docbook .xref img[src^=images\/callouts\/],
+.screen img,
+.programlisting img {
+    width: 1em;
+}
+
+.calloutlist img {
+    width: 1.5em;
+}
diff --git a/doc/manual/postprocess-option-descriptions.xsl b/doc/manual/postprocess-option-descriptions.xsl
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1201c761
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/manual/postprocess-option-descriptions.xsl
@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+
+<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
+                xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
+                xmlns:str="http://exslt.org/strings"
+                xmlns:exsl="http://exslt.org/common"
+                xmlns:db="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+                xmlns:nixos="tag:nixos.org"
+                extension-element-prefixes="str exsl">
+  <xsl:output method='xml' encoding="UTF-8" />
+
+  <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
+    <xsl:copy>
+      <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()" />
+    </xsl:copy>
+  </xsl:template>
+
+  <xsl:template name="break-up-description">
+    <xsl:param name="input" />
+    <xsl:param name="buffer" />
+
+    <!-- Every time we have two newlines following each other, we want to
+         break it into </para><para>. -->
+    <xsl:variable name="parbreak" select="'&#xa;&#xa;'" />
+
+    <!-- Similar to "(head:tail) = input" in Haskell. -->
+    <xsl:variable name="head" select="$input[1]" />
+    <xsl:variable name="tail" select="$input[position() &gt; 1]" />
+
+    <xsl:choose>
+      <xsl:when test="$head/self::text() and contains($head, $parbreak)">
+        <!-- If the haystack provided to str:split() directly starts or
+             ends with $parbreak, it doesn't generate a <token/> for that,
+             so we are doing this here. -->
+        <xsl:variable name="splitted-raw">
+          <xsl:if test="starts-with($head, $parbreak)"><token /></xsl:if>
+          <xsl:for-each select="str:split($head, $parbreak)">
+            <token><xsl:value-of select="node()" /></token>
+          </xsl:for-each>
+          <!-- Something like ends-with($head, $parbreak), but there is
+               no ends-with() in XSLT, so we need to use substring(). -->
+          <xsl:if test="
+            substring($head, string-length($head) -
+                             string-length($parbreak) + 1) = $parbreak
+          "><token /></xsl:if>
+        </xsl:variable>
+        <xsl:variable name="splitted"
+                      select="exsl:node-set($splitted-raw)/token" />
+        <!-- The buffer we had so far didn't contain any text nodes that
+             contain a $parbreak, so we can put the buffer along with the
+             first token of $splitted into a para element. -->
+        <para xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
+          <xsl:apply-templates select="exsl:node-set($buffer)" />
+          <xsl:apply-templates select="$splitted[1]/node()" />
+        </para>
+        <!-- We have already emitted the first splitted result, so the
+             last result is going to be set as the new $buffer later
+             because its contents may not be directly followed up by a
+             $parbreak. -->
+        <xsl:for-each select="$splitted[position() &gt; 1
+                              and position() &lt; last()]">
+          <para xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
+            <xsl:apply-templates select="node()" />
+          </para>
+        </xsl:for-each>
+        <xsl:call-template name="break-up-description">
+          <xsl:with-param name="input" select="$tail" />
+          <xsl:with-param name="buffer" select="$splitted[last()]/node()" />
+        </xsl:call-template>
+      </xsl:when>
+      <!-- Either non-text node or one without $parbreak, which we just
+           want to buffer and continue recursing. -->
+      <xsl:when test="$input">
+        <xsl:call-template name="break-up-description">
+          <xsl:with-param name="input" select="$tail" />
+          <!-- This essentially appends $head to $buffer. -->
+          <xsl:with-param name="buffer">
+            <xsl:if test="$buffer">
+              <xsl:for-each select="exsl:node-set($buffer)">
+                <xsl:apply-templates select="." />
+              </xsl:for-each>
+            </xsl:if>
+            <xsl:apply-templates select="$head" />
+          </xsl:with-param>
+        </xsl:call-template>
+      </xsl:when>
+      <!-- No more $input, just put the remaining $buffer in a para. -->
+      <xsl:otherwise>
+        <para xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
+          <xsl:apply-templates select="exsl:node-set($buffer)" />
+        </para>
+      </xsl:otherwise>
+    </xsl:choose>
+  </xsl:template>
+
+  <xsl:template match="nixos:option-description">
+    <xsl:choose>
+      <!--
+        Only process nodes that are comprised of a single <para/> element,
+        because if that's not the case the description already contains
+        </para><para> in between and we need no further processing.
+      -->
+      <xsl:when test="count(db:para) > 1">
+        <xsl:apply-templates select="node()" />
+      </xsl:when>
+      <xsl:otherwise>
+        <xsl:call-template name="break-up-description">
+          <xsl:with-param name="input"
+                          select="exsl:node-set(db:para/node())" />
+        </xsl:call-template>
+      </xsl:otherwise>
+    </xsl:choose>
+  </xsl:template>
+
+</xsl:stylesheet>
diff --git a/doc/manual/style.css b/doc/manual/style.css
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..474dd32e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/manual/style.css
@@ -0,0 +1,291 @@
+/* Copied from http://bakefile.sourceforge.net/, which appears
+   licensed under the GNU GPL. */
+
+
+/***************************************************************************
+                             Basic headers and text:
+ ***************************************************************************/
+
+body
+{
+    font-family: "Nimbus Sans L", sans-serif;
+    font-size: 1em;
+    background: white;
+    margin: 2em 1em 2em 1em;
+}
+
+h1, h2, h3, h4
+{
+    color: #005aa0;
+}
+
+h1 /* title */
+{
+    font-size: 200%;
+}
+
+h2 /* chapters, appendices, subtitle */
+{
+    font-size: 180%;
+}
+
+div.book
+{
+    text-align: center;
+}
+
+div.book > div
+{
+    /*
+     * based on https://medium.com/@zkareemz/golden-ratio-62b3b6d4282a
+     * we do 70 characters per line to fit code listings better
+     * 70 * (font-size / 1.618)
+     * expression for emacs:
+     * (* 70 (/ 1 1.618))
+     */
+    max-width: 43.2em;
+    text-align: left;
+    margin: auto;
+}
+
+/* Extra space between chapters, appendices. */
+div.chapter > div.titlepage h2, div.appendix > div.titlepage h2
+{
+    margin-top: 1.5em;
+}
+
+div.section > div.titlepage h2 /* sections */
+{
+    font-size: 150%;
+    margin-top: 1.5em;
+}
+
+h3 /* subsections */
+{
+    font-size: 125%;
+}
+
+div.simplesect h2
+{
+    font-size: 110%;
+}
+
+div.appendix h3
+{
+    font-size: 150%;
+    margin-top: 1.5em;
+}
+
+div.refnamediv h2, div.refsynopsisdiv h2, div.refsection h2 /* refentry parts */
+{
+    margin-top: 1.4em;
+    font-size: 125%;
+}
+
+div.refsection h3
+{
+    font-size: 110%;
+}
+
+
+/***************************************************************************
+                               Examples:
+ ***************************************************************************/
+
+div.example
+{
+    border: 1px solid #b0b0b0;
+    padding: 6px 6px;
+    margin-left: 1.5em;
+    margin-right: 1.5em;
+    background: #f4f4f8;
+    border-radius: 0.4em;
+    box-shadow: 0.4em 0.4em 0.5em #e0e0e0;
+}
+
+div.example p.title
+{
+    margin-top: 0em;
+}
+
+div.example pre
+{
+    box-shadow: none;
+}
+
+
+/***************************************************************************
+                            Screen dumps:
+ ***************************************************************************/
+
+pre.screen, pre.programlisting
+{
+    border: 1px solid #b0b0b0;
+    padding: 3px 3px;
+    margin-left: 0.5em;
+    margin-right: 0.5em;
+
+    background: #f4f4f8;
+    font-family: monospace;
+    border-radius: 0.4em;
+    box-shadow: 0.4em 0.4em 0.5em #e0e0e0;
+}
+
+div.example pre.programlisting
+{
+    border: 0px;
+    padding: 0 0;
+    margin: 0 0 0 0;
+}
+
+/***************************************************************************
+                               Notes, warnings etc:
+ ***************************************************************************/
+
+.note, .warning
+{
+    border: 1px solid #b0b0b0;
+    padding: 3px 3px;
+    margin-left: 1.5em;
+    margin-right: 1.5em;
+    margin-bottom: 1em;
+    padding: 0.3em 0.3em 0.3em 0.3em;
+    background: #fffff5;
+    border-radius: 0.4em;
+    box-shadow: 0.4em 0.4em 0.5em #e0e0e0;
+}
+
+div.note, div.warning
+{
+    font-style: italic;
+}
+
+div.note h3, div.warning h3
+{
+    color: red;
+    font-size: 100%;
+    padding-right: 0.5em;
+    display: inline;
+}
+
+div.note p, div.warning p
+{
+    margin-bottom: 0em;
+}
+
+div.note h3 + p, div.warning h3 + p
+{
+    display: inline;
+}
+
+div.note h3
+{
+    color: blue;
+    font-size: 100%;
+}
+
+div.navfooter *
+{
+    font-size: 90%;
+}
+
+
+/***************************************************************************
+                        Links colors and highlighting:
+ ***************************************************************************/
+
+a { text-decoration: none; }
+a:hover { text-decoration: underline; }
+a:link { color: #0048b3; }
+a:visited { color: #002a6a; }
+
+
+/***************************************************************************
+                              Table of contents:
+ ***************************************************************************/
+
+div.toc
+{
+    font-size: 90%;
+}
+
+div.toc dl
+{
+    margin-top: 0em;
+    margin-bottom: 0em;
+}
+
+
+/***************************************************************************
+                               Special elements:
+ ***************************************************************************/
+
+tt, code
+{
+    color: #400000;
+}
+
+.term
+{
+    font-weight: bold;
+
+}
+
+div.variablelist dd p, div.glosslist dd p
+{
+    margin-top: 0em;
+}
+
+div.variablelist dd, div.glosslist dd
+{
+    margin-left: 1.5em;
+}
+
+div.glosslist dt
+{
+    font-style: italic;
+}
+
+.varname
+{
+    color: #400000;
+}
+
+span.command strong
+{
+    font-weight: normal;
+    color: #400000;
+}
+
+div.calloutlist table
+{
+    box-shadow: none;
+}
+
+table
+{
+    border-collapse: collapse;
+    box-shadow: 0.4em 0.4em 0.5em #e0e0e0;
+}
+
+table.simplelist
+{
+    text-align: left;
+    color: #005aa0;
+    border: 0;
+    padding: 5px;
+    background: #fffff5;
+    font-weight: normal;
+    font-style: italic;
+    box-shadow: none;
+    margin-bottom: 1em;
+}
+
+div.navheader table, div.navfooter table {
+    box-shadow: none;
+}
+
+div.affiliation
+{
+    font-style: italic;
+}