diff --git a/docs/source/api/index.rst b/docs/source/api/index.rst
index d5c55f4..8940cf1 100644
--- a/docs/source/api/index.rst
+++ b/docs/source/api/index.rst
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
   The IPython API
 ###################
 
-.. htmlonly::
+.. only:: html
 
    :Release: |version|
    :Date: |today|
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index 33440a2..9edb517 100755
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -54,9 +54,6 @@ exec(compile(open('../../IPython/core/release.py').read(), '../../IPython/core/r
 # Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be extensions
 # coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom ones.
 extensions = [
-    'matplotlib.sphinxext.mathmpl',
-    'matplotlib.sphinxext.only_directives',
-    'matplotlib.sphinxext.plot_directive',
     'sphinx.ext.autodoc',
     'sphinx.ext.autosummary',
     'sphinx.ext.doctest',
diff --git a/docs/source/index.rst b/docs/source/index.rst
index fba9c7c..e245569 100644
--- a/docs/source/index.rst
+++ b/docs/source/index.rst
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 IPython Documentation
 =====================
 
-.. htmlonly::
+.. only:: html
 
    :Release: |release|
    :Date: |today|
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ repository <http://github.com/ipython/ipython>`_.
      Formerly ``IPython.parallel``.
 
 
-.. htmlonly::
+.. only:: html
    * :ref:`genindex`
    * :ref:`modindex`
    * :ref:`search`