gnu packages: Avoid description lines with leading "(".

* gnu/packages/curl.scm (curl): Reformat description to avoid a line
  beginning with "(" because such lines break font-lock highlighting
  in Emacs.
* gnu/packages/flashing-tools.scm (dfu-programmer): Likewise.
* gnu/packages/games.scm (gnugo): Likewise.
* gnu/packages/gnome.scm (json-glib): Likewise.
* gnu/packages/image.scm (jbig2dec): Likewise.
* gnu/packages/maths.scm (units): Likewise.
* gnu/packages/pdf.scm (mupdf): Likewise.
* gnu/packages/web.scm (perl-encode-locale): Likewise.
* gnu/packages/wordnet.scm (wordnet): Likewise.
* gnu/packages/xml.scm (libxml2):Likewise.

gnu/packages/curl.scm

@@ -102,10 +102,10 @@ (define-public curl
     "curl is a command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax,
 supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, Gopher, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP,
 LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMTP, SMTPS, Telnet and TFTP.
-curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading,
+curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP
-HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication
+form based upload, proxies, cookies, file transfer resume, user+password
-(Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, kerberos...), file transfer resume,
+authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, kerberos...), proxy
-proxy tunneling, and so on")
+tunneling, and so on.")
    (license (license:non-copyleft "file://COPYING"
-                       "See COPYING in the distribution."))
+                                  "See COPYING in the distribution."))
    (home-page "http://curl.haxx.se/")))

gnu/packages/flashing-tools.scm

@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ (define-public dfu-programmer
     (home-page "http://dfu-programmer.github.io/")
     (synopsis "Device firmware update programmer for Atmel chips")
     (description
-     "Dfu-programmer is a multi-platform command-line programmer for Atmel
+     "Dfu-programmer is a multi-platform command-line programmer for
-(8051, AVR, XMEGA & AVR32) chips with a USB bootloader supporting ISP")
+Atmel (8051, AVR, XMEGA & AVR32) chips with a USB bootloader supporting
+ISP.")
     (license gpl2+)))

gnu/packages/games.scm

@@ -853,13 +853,14 @@ (define-public gnugo
     (build-system gnu-build-system)
     (inputs `(("readline" ,readline)))
     (synopsis "Play the game of Go")
-    (description "GNU Go is a program that plays the game of Go, in which
+    (description
-players place stones on a grid to form territory or capture other stones.
+     "GNU Go is a program that plays the game of Go, in which players
-While it can be played directly from the terminal, rendered in ASCII
+place stones on a grid to form territory or capture other stones.  While
-characters, it is also possible to play GNU Go with 3rd party graphical
+it can be played directly from the terminal, rendered in ASCII characters,
-interfaces or even in Emacs.  It supports the standard game storage format
+it is also possible to play GNU Go with 3rd party graphical interfaces or
-(SGF, Smart Game Format) and inter-process communication format (GMP, Go
+even in Emacs.  It supports the standard game storage format (SGF, Smart
-Modem Protocol).")
+Game Format) and inter-process communication format (GMP, Go Modem
+Protocol).")
     (home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/")
     (license license:gpl3+)))
 

gnu/packages/gnome.scm

@@ -1778,11 +1778,12 @@ (define-public json-glib
      `(("glib" ,glib)))                         ;according to json-glib-1.0.pc
     (home-page "https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/JsonGlib")
     (synopsis "Compiler for the GObject type system")
-    (description "JSON-GLib is a C library based on GLib providing
+    (description
-serialization and deserialization support for the JavaScript Object Notation
+     "JSON-GLib is a C library based on GLib providing serialization and
-(JSON) format described by RFC 4627.  It provides parser and generator
+deserialization support for the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format
-GObject classes and various wrappers for the complex data types employed by
+described by RFC 4627.  It provides parser and generator GObject classes and
-JSON, such as arrays and objects.")
+various wrappers for the complex data types employed by JSON, such as arrays
+and objects.")
     (license license:lgpl2.1+)))
 
 (define-public libxklavier

gnu/packages/image.scm

@@ -264,10 +264,10 @@ (define-public jbig2dec
     (build-system gnu-build-system)
     (synopsis "Decoder of the JBIG2 image compression format")
     (description
-      "JBIG2 is designed for lossy or lossless encoding of 'bilevel'
+      "JBIG2 is designed for lossy or lossless encoding of 'bilevel' (1-bit
-(1-bit monochrome) images at moderately high resolution, and in
+monochrome) images at moderately high resolution, and in particular scanned
-particular scanned paper documents.  In this domain it is very
+paper documents.  In this domain it is very efficient, offering compression
-efficient, offering compression ratios on the order of 100:1.
+ratios on the order of 100:1.
 
 This is a decoder only implementation, and currently is in the alpha
 stage, meaning it doesn't completely work yet.  However, it is

gnu/packages/maths.scm

@@ -90,10 +90,10 @@ (define-public units
    (synopsis "Conversion between thousands of scales")
    (description
     "GNU Units converts numeric quantities between units of measure.  It
-can handle scale changes through adaptive usage of standard scale prefixes
+can handle scale changes through adaptive usage of standard scale
-(micro-, kilo-, etc.).  It can also handle nonlinear conversions such as
+prefixes (micro-, kilo-, etc.).  It can also handle nonlinear
-Fahrenheit to Celsius.  Its interpreter is powerful enough to be used
+conversions such as Fahrenheit to Celsius.  Its interpreter is powerful
-effectively as a scientific calculator.")
+enough to be used effectively as a scientific calculator.")
    (license license:gpl3+)
    (home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/units/")))
 

gnu/packages/pdf.scm

@@ -424,8 +424,8 @@ (define-public mupdf
 listing the table of contents and hyperlinks.
 
 The library ships with a rudimentary X11 viewer, and a set of command
-line tools for batch rendering (pdfdraw), examining the file structure
+line tools for batch rendering (pdfdraw), rewriting files (pdfclean),
-(pdfshow), and rewriting files (pdfclean).")
+and examining the file structure (pdfshow).")
     (license license:agpl3+)))
 
 (define-public qpdf

gnu/packages/web.scm

@@ -1566,13 +1566,13 @@ (define-public perl-encode-locale
     (synopsis "Perl locale encoding determination")
     (description
      "The POSIX locale system is used to specify both the language
-conventions requested by the user and the preferred character set to consume
+conventions requested by the user and the preferred character set to
-and output.  The Encode::Locale module looks up the charset and encoding
+consume and output.  The Encode::Locale module looks up the charset and
-(called a CODESET in the locale jargon) and arranges for the Encode module
+encoding (called a CODESET in the locale jargon) and arranges for the
-to know this encoding under the name \"locale\".  It means bytes obtained
+Encode module to know this encoding under the name \"locale\".  It means
-from the environment can be converted to Unicode strings by calling
+bytes obtained from the environment can be converted to Unicode strings
-Encode::encode(locale => $bytes) and converted back again with
+by calling Encode::encode(locale => $bytes) and converted back again
-Encode::decode(locale => $string).")
+with Encode::decode(locale => $string).")
     (home-page "http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/Encode-Locale/")))
 
 (define-public perl-file-listing

gnu/packages/wordnet.scm

@@ -79,9 +79,9 @@ (define-public wordnet
     (synopsis "Lexical database for the English language")
     (description
      "WordNet® is a large lexical database of English.  Nouns, verbs,
-adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms
+adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets),
-(synsets), each expressing a distinct concept.  Synsets are interlinked by
+each expressing a distinct concept.  Synsets are interlinked by means of
-means of conceptual-semantic and lexical relations.  The resulting network of
+conceptual-semantic and lexical relations.  The resulting network of
 meaningfully related words and concepts can be navigated with the browser.
 WordNet is also freely and publicly available for download.  WordNet's
 structure makes it a useful tool for computational linguistics and natural

gnu/packages/xml.scm

@@ -84,8 +84,8 @@ (define-public libxml2
                                 (file-type 'regular))))
     (search-paths native-search-paths)
     (description
-     "Libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project
+     "Libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome
-(but it is usable outside of the Gnome platform).")
+project (but it is usable outside of the Gnome platform).")
     (license license:x11)))
 
 (define-public python-libxml2