mention doc improvements

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,20 +1,9 @@
 Thanks to everybody who's submitted changes and additions to Autoconf!
-I've incorporated some of them, and am still considering others for
+I've incorporated many of them, and am still considering others for
 future releases -- but I didn't want to postpone this release indefinitely.
 
 Major changes in release 2.0:
 
-** New files:
-* Comes with config.sub and config.guess, and uses them optionally.
-* Uses config.cache to cache test results.  An alternate cache file
-  can be selected with the --cache-file=FILE option.
-* Uses optional shell scripts $exec_prefix/lib/config.site and
-  $prefix/lib/config.site to perform site or system specific initializations. 
-* configure saves compiler output to ./config.log for debugging.
-* New file autoconf.m4 loads the rest of the Autoconf macros.
-* acsite.m4 is the new name for the system-wide aclocal.m4.
-* Has the beginnings of a DejaGnu test suite.
-
 ** New macros:
 * AC_CACHE_VAL to share results of tests between configure runs.
 * AC_DEFUN to define macros, automatically AC_PROVIDE them, and ensure
@@ -44,7 +33,7 @@ Major changes in release 2.0:
   configure to config.status.
 * AC_OUTPUT and AC_CONFIG_HEADER allow you to override the input-file names.
 * AC_OUTPUT automatically substitutes the values of CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS,
-  CPPFLAGS, and LDFLAGS from the environment, with default values.
+  CPPFLAGS, and LDFLAGS from the environment.
 * AC_PROG_CC and AC_PROG_CXX now set CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, respectively.
 * AC_PROG_INSTALL looks for install.sh in the directory specified by
   AC_CONFIG_AUXDIR, or srcdir or srcdir/.. or srcdir/../.. by default.
@@ -63,6 +52,17 @@ Major changes in release 2.0:
 * AC_HAVE_POUNDBANG replaced with AC_SYS_INTERPRETER, which doesn't
   take arguments, for consistency with all of the other specific checks.
 
+** New files:
+* Comes with config.sub and config.guess, and uses them optionally.
+* Uses config.cache to cache test results.  An alternate cache file
+  can be selected with the --cache-file=FILE option.
+* Uses optional shell scripts $exec_prefix/lib/config.site and
+  $prefix/lib/config.site to perform site or system specific initializations. 
+* configure saves compiler output to ./config.log for debugging.
+* New files autoconf.m4 and autoheader.m4 load the other Autoconf macros.
+* acsite.m4 is the new name for the system-wide aclocal.m4.
+* Has the beginnings of a DejaGnu test suite.
+
 ** New utilities:
 * autoscan to generate a preliminary configure.in for a package by
   scanning its source code for commonly used nonportable functions,
@@ -75,6 +75,10 @@ Major changes in release 2.0:
 
 ** Changed utilities:
 * autoheader can take pieces of acconfig.h to replace config.h.{top,bot}.
+
+** Documentation:
+* Autoconf manual is reorganized to make information easier to find
+  and has several new indexes.
 \f
 Major changes in release 1.11: