diff --git a/appveyor.yml b/appveyor.yml
index 439930fe..b0bfc513 100644
--- a/appveyor.yml
+++ b/appveyor.yml
@@ -46,11 +46,14 @@ install:
   - "pip install --pre --no-index --find-links dist/ scikit-image"
 
 
-
 # Not a .NET project, we build scikit-image in the install step instead
 build: false
 
 test_script:
+  # Build the docs
+  - pip install sphinx
+  - cd doc && make
+
   # Change to a non-source folder to make sure we run the tests on the
   # installed library.
   - "cd C:\\"
@@ -61,10 +64,6 @@ test_script:
   # Run unit tests with nose
   - "python -c \"import nose; nose.main()\" -v -s skimage"
 
-  # Build the docs
-  - pip install sphinx
-  - cd doc && make
-
 artifacts:
   # Archive the generated wheel package in the ci.appveyor.com build report.
   - path: dist\*
diff --git a/doc/make.bat b/doc/make.bat
index 68cf7efc..e7c61181 100644
--- a/doc/make.bat
+++ b/doc/make.bat
@@ -115,6 +115,8 @@ if "%1" == "epub" (
 )
 
 if "%1" == "latex" (
+	mkdir source/api
+	%PYTHON% tools/build_modref_templates.py 
 	%SPHINXBUILD% -b latex %ALLSPHINXOPTS% %BUILDDIR%/latex
 	echo.
 	echo.Build finished; the LaTeX files are in %BUILDDIR%/latex.