Re: NEWS file format

[Bruno H. <br...@cl...>]

Hi Sam,

> markdown is widely supported.

Markdown is something else: It's a *shorthand for writing* a text file
with structure, when it is known that the file will *always be postprocessed*
(through the Markdown processor) before being presented to user.
Which is not the case here: The NEWS file is being included literally
in the distribution.

It would be OK with me to have a NEWS.md (or NEWS.xml) in the repository, with
a NEWS.html alongside it that is always automatically regenerated upon any
modification of NEWS.{md,xml}.
But that's probably overkill for 200 lines of text?

> At any rate, please do not introduce any new idiosyncratic markup there
> as you did recently.

I did not introduce a markup. I introduced a kind of visual representation.
Any other visual representation that satisfies the principle that section
titles catch the eyes more easily than subsubsection titles would be OK.

Bruno