diff --git a/muttator/locale/en-US/Makefile b/muttator/locale/en-US/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c2521e8b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/muttator/locale/en-US/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+THISLOCALE=$(notdir $(shell pwd))
+
+all: *.html
+
+%: %.html %.txt
+	@make $@.html
+
+%.html: %.txt asciidoc.conf
+	@make -C ../../ locale/$(THISLOCALE)/$@
diff --git a/vimperator/locale/en-US/Makefile b/vimperator/locale/en-US/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c2521e8b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vimperator/locale/en-US/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+THISLOCALE=$(notdir $(shell pwd))
+
+all: *.html
+
+%: %.html %.txt
+	@make $@.html
+
+%.html: %.txt asciidoc.conf
+	@make -C ../../ locale/$(THISLOCALE)/$@