diff --git a/default.slideous b/default.slideous
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a0f2e258c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/default.slideous
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
+ "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"$if(lang)$ lang="$lang$" xml:lang="$lang$"$endif$>
+<head>
+  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
+  <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" />
+  <meta name="generator" content="pandoc" />
+$for(author-meta)$
+  <meta name="author" content="$author-meta$" />
+$endfor$
+$if(date-meta)$
+  <meta name="date" content="$date-meta$" />
+$endif$
+  <title>$if(title-prefix)$$title-prefix$ - $endif$$if(pagetitle)$$pagetitle$$endif$</title>
+$if(highlighting-css)$
+  <style type="text/css">
+$highlighting-css$
+  </style>
+$endif$
+  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen, projection, print"
+    href="$slideous-url$/slideous.css" />
+$for(css)$
+  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen, projection, print"
+   href="$css$" />
+$endfor$
+$if(math)$
+  $math$
+$endif$
+$for(header-includes)$
+  $header-includes$
+$endfor$
+  <script src="$slideous-url$/slideous.js"
+    charset="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script>
+$if(duration)$
+  <meta name="duration" content="$duration$" />
+$endif$
+</head>
+<body>
+$for(include-before)$
+$include-before$
+$endfor$
+<div id="statusbar">
+<span style="float:right;">
+<span style="margin-right:4em;font-weight:bold;"><span id="slideidx"></span> of {$$slidecount}</span>
+<button id="homebutton" title="first slide">1</button>
+<button id="prevslidebutton" title="previous slide">&laquo;</button>
+<button id="previtembutton" title="previous item">&lsaquo;</button>
+<button id="nextitembutton" title="next item">&rsaquo;</button>
+<button id="nextslidebutton" title="next slide">&raquo;</button>
+<button id="endbutton" title="last slide">{$$slidecount}</button>
+<button id="incfontbutton" title="content">A+</button>
+<button id="decfontbutton" title="first slide">A-</button>
+<select id="tocbox" size="1"><option></option></select>
+</span>
+<span id="eos">&frac12;</span>
+<span title="{$$location}, {$$date}">{$$title}, {$$author}</span>
+</div>
+$if(title)$
+<div class="slide titlepage">
+  <h1 class="title">$title$</h1>
+  <p class="author">
+$for(author)$$author$$sep$<br/>$endfor$
+  </p>
+$if(date)$
+  <p class="date">$date$</p>
+$endif$
+</div>
+$endif$
+$body$
+$for(include-after)$
+$include-after$
+$endfor$
+</body>
+</html>
diff --git a/default.slidy b/default.slidy
index 86ccfd28d..0a74ca7f5 100644
--- a/default.slidy
+++ b/default.slidy
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
-<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"$if(lang)$ lang="$lang$" xml:lang="$lang$"$endif$>
 <head>
   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
   <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" />
