diff --git a/templates/default/publish.js b/templates/default/publish.js
index ce01ee36..59731879 100644
--- a/templates/default/publish.js
+++ b/templates/default/publish.js
@@ -468,21 +468,25 @@ exports.publish = function(taffyData, opts, tutorials) {
     var members = helper.getMembers(data);
     members.tutorials = tutorials.children;
 
+    // output pretty-printed source files by default
+    var outputSourceFiles = conf['default'] && conf['default'].outputSourceFiles !== false ? true :
+        false;
+
     // add template helpers
     view.find = find;
     view.linkto = linkto;
     view.resolveAuthorLinks = resolveAuthorLinks;
     view.tutoriallink = tutoriallink;
     view.htmlsafe = htmlsafe;
+    view.outputSourceFiles = outputSourceFiles;
 
     // once for all
     view.nav = buildNav(members);
     attachModuleSymbols( find({ kind: ['class', 'function'], longname: {left: 'module:'} }),
         members.modules );
 
-    // output pretty-printed source files by default; do this before generating any other pages, so
-    // that the other pages can link to the source files
-    if (!conf['default'] || conf['default'].outputSourceFiles !== false) {
+    // generate the pretty-printed source files first so other pages can link to them
+    if (outputSourceFiles) {
         generateSourceFiles(sourceFiles, opts.encoding);
     }
 
diff --git a/templates/default/tmpl/details.tmpl b/templates/default/tmpl/details.tmpl
index 13233e4b..3669a234 100644
--- a/templates/default/tmpl/details.tmpl
+++ b/templates/default/tmpl/details.tmpl
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ if (data.defaultvalue && data.defaultvaluetype === 'object') {
         </ul></dd>
     <?js } ?>
     
-    <?js if (data.meta) {?>
+    <?js if (data.meta && self.outputSourceFiles) {?>
     <dt class="tag-source">Source:</dt>
     <dd class="tag-source"><ul class="dummy"><li>
         <?js= self.linkto(meta.shortpath) ?>, <?js= self.linkto(meta.shortpath, 'line ' + meta.lineno, null, 'line' + meta.lineno) ?>