shorten announcement

diff --git a/8.5/announce-short b/8.5/announce-short
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--- a/8.5/announce-short
+++ b/8.5/announce-short
@@ -8,16 +8,14 @@ The major changes of this release are:
 
 - The CellDataStorage class provides a mechanism to store and communicate
   user-defined data on each cell.
-- The MappingManifold class provides mappings between the reference cell and a
-  mesh cell that is exact, rather than the usual polynomial approximations of
-  a manifold.
+- The MappingManifold class provides exact mapping between the reference cell
+  and a mesh cell.
 - Various improvements for high-order elements, including a switch of support
   points in FE\_Q and FE\_DGQ to Gauss-Lobatto support points, stable
   evaluation of high-order Legendre polynomials, and several bugfixes for
-  high-order polynomial mappings defined through the MappingQ class.
+  high-order mappings.
 - The LinearOperator class has been extended by a generic ``payload''
-  mechanism that allows the attachment of arbitrary additional information to
-  a LinearOperator.
+  mechanism that allows the attachment of arbitrary additional information.
 - A dedicated physics module has been created to provide some standard
   definitions and operations used in continuum mechanics.
 - The FE_Enriched class implements the operation of enriching the finite
@@ -27,8 +25,8 @@ The major changes of this release are:
 - New tutorial programs step-55, step-56, and step-57; as well as updates to
   step-27, step-37, and step-44. In addition, the separate code gallery of
   deal.II has gained a number of new entries.
-- This release was tested with static code analyzers: Cppcheck, PVS-Studio, and
-  Coverity-Scan.
+- This release was tested with static code analyzers: Cppcheck, PVS-Studio,
+  and Coverity-Scan.
 - More than 240 other features and bugfixes, see the full list of changes at
   https://www.dealii.org/developer/doxygen/deal.II/changes_between_8_4_2_and_8_5_0.html