uniform style of notes and new feature markers

- stripped trailing whitespace;
- corrected the tag soup;
- corrected Java versions (1.4 followed by 5);
- stripped inline styling (use CSS for uniformity).

- made dump-info a dependency of test-init;
- removed extraneous dependencies of distribution targets;
- turned camelcase and snakecase into kebabcase for consistency.

normalise whitespace in scripts and use Perl idioms properly

normalise whitespace in scripts and use Perl idioms properly