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 * Changes in version 2.5 (????-??-??):
 
-** Named References Support
+** Named references:
 
   Historically, Yacc and Bison have supported positional references
   ($n, $$) to allow access to symbol values from inside of semantic
@@ -28,13 +28,13 @@ Bison News
   These features are experimental in this version.  More user feedback
   will help to stabilize them.
 
-** IELR(1) and Canonical LR(1) Support
+** IELR(1) and canonical LR(1):
 
   IELR(1) is a minimal LR(1) parser table generation algorithm.  That
   is, given any context-free grammar, IELR(1) generates parser tables
   with the full language recognition power of canonical LR(1) but with
-  nearly the same number of parser states as LALR(1).  This reduction in
-  parser states is often an order of magnitude.  More importantly,
+  nearly the same number of parser states as LALR(1).  This reduction
+  in parser states is often an order of magnitude.  More importantly,
   because canonical LR(1)'s extra parser states may contain duplicate
   conflicts in the case of non-LR(1) grammars, the number of conflicts
   for IELR(1) is often an order of magnitude less as well.  This can
@@ -98,15 +98,15 @@ Bison News
   LAC is an experimental feature.  More user feedback will help to
   stabilize it.
 
-** Unrecognized %code qualifiers are now an error not a warning.
+** Unrecognized %code qualifiers are now errors not warnings.
 
-** %define improvements.
+** %define improvements:
 
-*** Unrecognized variables are now an error not a warning.
+*** Unrecognized variables are now errors not warnings.
 
 *** Multiple invocations for any variable is now an error not a warning.
 
-*** Can now be invoked via the command line.
+*** Can now be invoked via the command line:
 
   Each of these command-line options
 
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ Bison News
   quietly override %define, but -D and --define do not.  For further
   details, see the section "Bison Options" in the Bison manual.
 
-*** Variables renamed.
+*** Variables renamed:
 
   The following %define variables
 
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ Bison News
   The old names are now deprecated but will be maintained indefinitely
   for backward compatibility.
 
-*** Values no longer need to be quoted in grammar file.
+*** Values no longer need to be quoted in grammar file:
 
   If a %define value is an identifier, it no longer needs to be placed
   within quotations marks.  For example,
@@ -151,15 +151,15 @@ Bison News
 
     %define api.push-pull push
 
-** Symbol names.
+** Grammar symbol names can now contain dashes:
 
   Consistently with directives (such as %error-verbose) and variables
-  (e.g. push-pull), symbol names may include dashes in any position,
-  similarly to periods and underscores.  This is GNU extension over
-  POSIX Yacc whose use is reported by -Wyacc, and rejected in Yacc
-  mode (--yacc).
+  (e.g. push-pull), grammar symbol names may include dashes in any
+  position, similarly to periods and underscores.  This is GNU
+  extension over POSIX Yacc whose use is reported by -Wyacc, and
+  rejected in Yacc mode (--yacc).
 
-** YYFAIL now produces warnings and Java parsers no longer implement it.
+** YYFAIL now produces warnings and Java parsers no longer implement it:
 
   YYFAIL has existed for many years as an undocumented feature of
   deterministic parsers in C generated by Bison.  More recently, it was
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ Bison News
   discussion of how to suppress C preprocessor warnings about YYFAIL
   being unused, see the Bison 2.4.2 NEWS entry.
 
-** Temporary hack for adding a semicolon to the user action.
+** Temporary hack for adding a semicolon to the user action:
 
   Previously, Bison appended a semicolon to every user action for
   reductions when the output language defaulted to C (specifically, when
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ Bison News
   about a missing semicolon where it did not before.  Future releases of
   Bison will cease to append semicolons entirely.
 
-** Character literals not of length one.
+** Character literals not of length one:
 
   Previously, Bison quietly converted all character literals to length
   one.  For example, without warning, Bison interpreted the operators in
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ Bison News
        ;
 
   Bison now warns when a character literal is not of length one.  In
-  some future release, Bison will report an error instead.
+  some future release, Bison will start reporting an error instead.
 
 ** Verbose syntax error message fixes:
 
@@ -242,14 +242,14 @@ Bison News
     canonical LR.  However, LAC is still experimental and is disabled
     by default.
 
-** Destructor calls fixed for lookaheads altered in semantic actions.
+** Destructor calls fixed for lookaheads altered in semantic actions:
 
   Previously for deterministic parsers in C, if a user semantic action
   altered yychar, the parser in some cases used the old yychar value to
   determine which destructor to call for the lookahead upon a syntax
   error or upon parser return.  This bug has been fixed.
 
-** C++ parsers use YYRHSLOC
+** C++ parsers use YYRHSLOC:
 
   Similarly to the C parsers, the C++ parsers now define the YYRHSLOC
   macro and use it in the default YYLLOC_DEFAULT.  You are encouraged
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ Bison News
             }                                                              \
         while (false)
 
-** YYLLOC_DEFAULT in C++
+** YYLLOC_DEFAULT in C++:
 
   The default implementation of YYLLOC_DEFAULT used to be issued in
   the header file.  It is now output in the implementation file, after