diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 24e929beda8e7fc80626d8dc1f77bc10c473df7f..4a7b637b269651e4baf1ea65f441f66f620583f8 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -10,8 +10,6 @@ $(DOCHANDLE).pdf: main.tex meta.tex changes.tex contents.tex
 
 contents.tex: contents
 	ls contents/[[:digit:]]-*tex | sed -e's/\(.*\)$$/\\include{\1}/' > $@
-	printf "%s\n" "\\appendix" >>$@
-	ls contents/[a-z]-*tex | sed -e's/\(.*\)$$/\\include{\1}/' >> $@
 
 include astron-texmf/make/vcs-meta.make
 include astron-texmf/make/changes.make
diff --git a/contents/a-app.tex b/contents/a-app.tex
deleted file mode 100644
index 7edb2fb3cb2bb3990d1a010efa6493234613305f..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/contents/a-app.tex
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-\section{Example appendix}