diff --git a/doc/BufFlatten.rst b/doc/BufFlatten.rst
index bb987e4..aa1da78 100644
--- a/doc/BufFlatten.rst
+++ b/doc/BufFlatten.rst
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 :see-also: BufCompose, BufStats
 :description: 
    Flatten a multichannel |buffer| to a single channel. This can be useful to structure a buffer such that it can be added to a :fluid-obj:`DataSet`
-
+:discussion:
    The ``axis`` argument determines how the flattening is arranged. The default value, 1, flattens channel-wise (similar to how audio files are stored), such that (if we imagine channels are rows, time positions are columns):
 
     ===  ===  ===
diff --git a/flucoma/doc/render.py b/flucoma/doc/render.py
index df2bcac..4feffef 100644
--- a/flucoma/doc/render.py
+++ b/flucoma/doc/render.py
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 from markupsafe import Markup
 
 from flucoma.doc.rst.docutils import register_custom_roles, register_custom_directives
+from flucoma.doc.rst.html import no_rst_filter
 from .logger import ContextView,add_context
 
 def type_map(x,namer):
@@ -41,6 +42,7 @@ def setup_jinja(client_index, args, driver):
     """
     # e.filters['rst'] = partial(rst_filter,data=client_index, driver=driver)
     e.filters['rst'] = driver['rst_render']
+    e.filters['striprst'] = no_rst_filter
     e.filters['as_host_object_name'] = lambda x: driver['namer'](client_index[x]) if x in client_index else f'Unresolved lookup ({x})'
     e.filters['typename'] = partial(type_map, namer=driver['types'])
     e.filters['constraints'] = lambda x,y,z: ''     
diff --git a/flucoma/doc/rst/html.py b/flucoma/doc/rst/html.py
index 53639a6..df698c0 100644
--- a/flucoma/doc/rst/html.py
+++ b/flucoma/doc/rst/html.py
@@ -12,13 +12,15 @@
 from docutils import nodes
 from docutils.utils import Reporter
 from docutils.core import publish_parts
-from docutils.writers import html4css1
+from docutils.writers import html4css1, Writer
+  
 
 from functools import partial 
 from jinja2 import pass_context
 from markupsafe import Markup
 
 import logging
+import re
 
 class FlucomaCrossRefTranslator(html4css1.HTMLTranslator):
     """docutils translator for Max ref    
@@ -96,3 +98,50 @@ def rst_filter(ctx,value):
                                 settings_overrides=settings)
     
     return Markup(tre['fragment'])
+    
+    
+class RSTSripper(nodes.GenericNodeVisitor): 
+    
+    def __init__(self,document):
+        super(RSTSripper,self).__init__(document)
+        self.settings = settings = document.settings
+        self.body = []
+    
+    def astext(self):
+        return ''.join(self.body)
+    
+    def default_visit(self, node): 
+        self.body.append(node.astext())
+        raise nodes.SkipNode
+
+class NoRSTWriter(Writer):
+    def __init__(self):
+        super(NoRSTWriter,self).__init__()
+        self.translator_class = RSTSripper
+    
+    def translate(self):
+        self.visitor = visitor = self.translator_class(self.document)
+        self.document.walkabout(visitor)
+        self.output = visitor.astext()
+
+@pass_context
+def no_rst_filter(ctx, value):    
+    if value is None or len(value) == 0:
+         return ''
+    logging.debug('Parsing no-rst block')
+                 
+    driver = ctx.parent['driver']
+    index =  ctx.parent['index']
+    
+    value = re.sub(r'\|buffer\|','buffer~',value)
+    
+    #stop docutils mirroing warnings to console, but we probably want to see errors
+    settings = {'report_level':Reporter.ERROR_LEVEL,'flucoma-host':ctx['host']} 
+    
+    tre = publish_parts(source=value, 
+                                writer = NoRSTWriter(),  
+                                reader = LoggingDocutilsReader(),
+                                settings_overrides=settings)
+    return Markup(tre['whole'])
+        
+        
diff --git a/flucoma/doc/templates/maxref.xml b/flucoma/doc/templates/maxref.xml
index 571397c..f6e3410 100644
--- a/flucoma/doc/templates/maxref.xml
+++ b/flucoma/doc/templates/maxref.xml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
 <!-- DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE ... YOU WILL LOSE YOUR WORK -->
 <c74object name='{{ client_name | as_host_object_name }}' category='FluidCorpusManuipulation'>
 	<digest>{{ digest }}</digest>
-	<description>{{ description | rst }}</description>
+	<description>{{ description | striprst }}</description>
   <discussion>
       <h4><openfilelink filename="Fluid Corpus Manipulation Toolkit.maxpat">Open the Overview Patch</openfilelink></h4>
         {{ discussion | rst | indent(8, first=True)}}