Miscellaneous minor fixes of Misc/NEWS formatting. (#1002) (#1003)

(cherry picked from commit a0157b5)

Misc/NEWS

@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ Library
 - Issue #28427: old keys should not remove new values from
   WeakValueDictionary when collecting from another thread.
 
-- Issue 28923: Remove editor artifacts from Tix.py.
+- Issue #28923: Remove editor artifacts from Tix.py.
 
 - Issue #29055:  Neaten-up empty population error on random.choice()
   by suppressing the upstream exception.
@@ -1058,7 +1058,7 @@ Core and Builtins
   alpha releases, where backslashes are allowed anywhere in an
   f-string.  Also, require that expressions inside f-strings be
   enclosed within literal braces, and not escapes like
-  f'\x7b"hi"\x7d'.
+  ``f'\x7b"hi"\x7d'``.
 
 - Issue #28046: Remove platform-specific directories from sys.path.
 
@@ -1277,7 +1277,7 @@ Library
 - Issue #24277: The new email API is no longer provisional, and the docs
   have been reorganized and rewritten to emphasize the new API.
 
-- Issue #22450: urllib now includes an "Accept: */*" header among the
+- Issue #22450: urllib now includes an ``Accept: */*`` header among the
   default headers.  This makes the results of REST API requests more
   consistent and predictable especially when proxy servers are involved.
 
@@ -1296,9 +1296,9 @@ Library
   characters, not on arbitrary unicode line breaks.  This also fixes a bug in
   HTTP header parsing.
 
-- Issue 27331: The email.mime classes now all accept an optional policy keyword.
+- Issue #27331: The email.mime classes now all accept an optional policy keyword.
 
-- Issue 27988: Fix email iter_attachments incorrect mutation of payload list.
+- Issue #27988: Fix email iter_attachments incorrect mutation of payload list.
 
 - Issue #16113: Add SHA-3 and SHAKE support to hashlib module.
 
@@ -2406,7 +2406,7 @@ Core and Builtins
   in ``def f(): 1.0``.
 
 - Issue #4806: Avoid masking the original TypeError exception when using star
-  (*) unpacking in function calls.  Based on patch by Hagen Fürstenau and
+  (``*``) unpacking in function calls.  Based on patch by Hagen Fürstenau and
   Daniel Urban.
 
 - Issue #26146: Add a new kind of AST node: ``ast.Constant``. It can be used
@@ -2964,7 +2964,7 @@ Library
 - Issue #25672: In the ssl module, enable the SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS mode
   option if it is safe to do so.
 
-- Issue #26012: Don't traverse into symlinks for ** pattern in
+- Issue #26012: Don't traverse into symlinks for ``**`` pattern in
   pathlib.Path.[r]glob().
 
 - Issue #24120: Ignore PermissionError when traversing a tree with
@@ -3100,7 +3100,7 @@ Library
 
 - Issue #25584: Added "escape" to the __all__ list in the glob module.
 
-- Issue #25584: Fixed recursive glob() with patterns starting with '\*\*'.
+- Issue #25584: Fixed recursive glob() with patterns starting with ``**``.
 
 - Issue #25446: Fix regression in smtplib's AUTH LOGIN support.
 
@@ -3735,7 +3735,7 @@ Library
 - Issue #28427: old keys should not remove new values from
   WeakValueDictionary when collecting from another thread.
 
-- Issue 28923: Remove editor artifacts from Tix.py.
+- Issue #28923: Remove editor artifacts from Tix.py.
 
 - Issue #28871: Fixed a crash when deallocate deep ElementTree.
 
@@ -3858,7 +3858,7 @@ Library
 
 - Issue #27599: Fixed buffer overrun in binascii.b2a_qp() and binascii.a2b_qp().
 
-- Issue #19003:m email.generator now replaces only \r and/or \n line
+- Issue #19003:m email.generator now replaces only ``\r`` and/or ``\n`` line
   endings, per the RFC, instead of all unicode line endings.
 
 - Issue #28019: itertools.count() no longer rounds non-integer step in range
@@ -3881,7 +3881,7 @@ Library
 - Issue #27445: Don't pass str(_charset) to MIMEText.set_payload().
   Patch by Claude Paroz.
 
-- Issue #22450: urllib now includes an "Accept: */*" header among the
+- Issue #22450: urllib now includes an ``Accept: */*`` header among the
   default headers.  This makes the results of REST API requests more
   consistent and predictable especially when proxy servers are involved.
 
@@ -3896,7 +3896,7 @@ Library
   characters, not on arbitrary unicode line breaks.  This also fixes a bug in
   HTTP header parsing.
 
-- Issue 27988: Fix email iter_attachments incorrect mutation of payload list.
+- Issue #27988: Fix email iter_attachments incorrect mutation of payload list.
 
 - Issue #27691: Fix ssl module's parsing of GEN_RID subject alternative name
   fields in X.509 certs.
@@ -4347,7 +4347,7 @@ Core and Builtins
   cookie names.
 
 - Issue #4806: Avoid masking the original TypeError exception when using star
-  (*) unpacking in function calls.  Based on patch by Hagen Fürstenau and
+  (``*``) unpacking in function calls.  Based on patch by Hagen Fürstenau and
   Daniel Urban.
 
 - Issue #27138: Fix the doc comment for FileFinder.find_spec().
@@ -4727,7 +4727,7 @@ Library
 - Issue #25672: In the ssl module, enable the SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS mode
   option if it is safe to do so.
 
-- Issue #26012: Don't traverse into symlinks for ** pattern in
+- Issue #26012: Don't traverse into symlinks for ``**`` pattern in
   pathlib.Path.[r]glob().
 
 - Issue #24120: Ignore PermissionError when traversing a tree with
@@ -5137,7 +5137,7 @@ Library
 
 - Issue #25584: Added "escape" to the __all__ list in the glob module.
 
-- Issue #25584: Fixed recursive glob() with patterns starting with '\*\*'.
+- Issue #25584: Fixed recursive glob() with patterns starting with ``**``.
 
 - Issue #25446: Fix regression in smtplib's AUTH LOGIN support.
 
@@ -6680,7 +6680,7 @@ Library
 
 - Issue #23521: Corrected pure python implementation of timedelta division.
 
- * Eliminated OverflowError from timedelta * float for some floats;
+ * Eliminated OverflowError from ``timedelta * float`` for some floats;
  * Corrected rounding in timedlta true division.
 
 - Issue #21619: Popen objects no longer leave a zombie after exit in the with
@@ -7479,7 +7479,7 @@ Library
   character instead of truncating it.  Based on patch by Victor Stinner.
 
 - Issue #13968: The glob module now supports recursive search in
-  subdirectories using the "**" pattern.
+  subdirectories using the ``**`` pattern.
 
 - Issue #21951: Fixed a crash in Tkinter on AIX when called Tcl command with
   empty string or tuple argument.