diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 37989b0de1cc3d00854992f5654bb120b4c0c10f..ad5d10cbff1cd125e71320d234687b3f4facf5a6 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 site/index.html
 site/en.html
+bla
diff --git a/publish.sh b/publish.sh
index d9fc99c100e01150b5dbaaae31955ebac242c452..97c763afc767619b87f6938731ca611a4247b37e 100755
--- a/publish.sh
+++ b/publish.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,21 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
+# convert to html ==============================================================
 asciidoctor site/*adoc
+
+# manual modifications to html created by asciidoctor ==========================
+# english site -------------------------
+#   window title
+sed -i -e 's/<title>Objectives<\/title>/<title>MeThAL Project<\/title>/' site/en.html
+#   add home link to top entry in ToC
 sed -i -e 's/"toctitle">Navigation<\/div>/"toctitle"><a href="https:\/\/methal.pages.unistra.fr\/en.html">Navigation<\/a><\/div>/' site/en.html
+#   make it clear where corpus is
 sed -i -e 's/"#_outputs">Outputs<\/a>/"#_outputs">Corpus \&amp; Outputs<\/a>/' site/en.html
+# french site --------------------------
+sed -i -e 's/<title>Objectifs<\/title>/<title>MeThAL<\/title>/' site/en.html
+#   add home link to top entry in ToC
+sed -i -e 's/"toctitle">Navigation<\/div>/"toctitle"><a href="https:\/\/methal.pages.unistra.fr">Navigation<\/a><\/div>/' site/index.html
+
+# copy to public repo ==========================================================
 cp -r site/*html public
 cp -r site/{img,styles} public/.