Markup cleanup

COPYRIGHT.org

@@ -30,9 +30,9 @@ The reference to ASL may be in an acknowledgment section, in a phrase such as th
 
 To cite ASL in publications please adopt the following:
 
-/ASL: Advanced Simulation Library™, an open source hardware accelerated multiphysics simulation platform/.[fn:1] Version 0.1.5.[fn:2] 2015-08-01.[fn:3] [[http://asl.org.il]].[fn:4] Avtech Scientific. Modiin Illit, Israel.
+/ASL: Advanced Simulation Library™, an open source hardware accelerated multiphysics simulation platform/.[1] Version 0.1.5.[2] 2015-08-01.[3] [[http://asl.org.il]].[4] Avtech Scientific. Modiin Illit, Israel.
 
-[fn:1] Additionally any sub-routines that were used may be specified.
-[fn:2] Version number or commit hash (in the latter case write: Commit 794e4916).
-[fn:3] Release or commit date.
-[fn:4] The URL should be an active hyperlink wherever technically possible.
+[1] Additionally any sub-routines that were used may be specified.
+[2] Version number or commit hash (in the latter case write: Commit 794e4916).
+[3] Release or commit date.
+[4] The URL should be an active hyperlink wherever technically possible.

NEWS.org

@@ -1,22 +1,31 @@
 * News and ChangeLog
 
-** 0.1.7 <2016-11-09>
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+** 0.1.7
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+[2016-11-09]
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+Contributors: Bartłomiej Piotrowski, Evgeniy Alekseev, Orion Poplawski.
 
 - providing more accurate project description in README
 - adding missing default parameters for some examples
 - fixing VTK (7.0, 7.1) related linking issues
 - bug fixes
 - fixing portability issues
 
-Contributors: Bartłomiej Piotrowski, Evgeniy Alekseev, Orion Poplawski.
 
-** 0.1.6 <2015-08-24>
+** 0.1.6
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+[2015-08-24]
 
 - fixing linkage issues
 - fixing testing issues
 - fixing an installation bug
 
-** 0.1.5 <2015-08-01>
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+** 0.1.5
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+[2015-08-01]
 
 - supplying cl.hpp, since not provided by OpenCL 2.0 (causes harmless "deprecated" warnings)
 - bug fixes