Merge pull request #237 from matrix-org/markjh/readme-rst-formatting

Clean up some of restructured text formatting in the README.rst

README.rst

@@ -174,10 +174,10 @@ traditionally used for convenience and simplicity.
 
 The advantages of Postgres include:
 
- * significant performance improvements due to the superior threading and
+* significant performance improvements due to the superior threading and
   caching model, smarter query optimiser
- * allowing the DB to be run on separate hardware
- * allowing basic active/backup high-availability with a "hot spare" synapse
+* allowing the DB to be run on separate hardware
+* allowing basic active/backup high-availability with a "hot spare" synapse
   pointing at the same DB master, as well as enabling DB replication in
   synapse itself.
 
@@ -190,8 +190,8 @@ For information on how to install and use PostgreSQL, please see
 Running Synapse
 ===============
 
-To actually run your new homeserver, pick a working directory for Synapse to run 
-(e.g. ``~/.synapse``), and::
+To actually run your new homeserver, pick a working directory for Synapse to
+run (e.g. ``~/.synapse``), and::
 
     cd ~/.synapse
     source ./bin/activate
@@ -243,18 +243,20 @@ Windows Install
 ---------------
 Synapse can be installed on Cygwin. It requires the following Cygwin packages:
 
- - gcc
- - git
- - libffi-devel
- - openssl (and openssl-devel, python-openssl)
- - python
- - python-setuptools
+- gcc
+- git
+- libffi-devel
+- openssl (and openssl-devel, python-openssl)
+- python
+- python-setuptools
 
 The content repository requires additional packages and will be unable to process
 uploads without them:
- - libjpeg8
- - libjpeg8-devel
- - zlib
+
+- libjpeg8
+- libjpeg8-devel
+- zlib
+
 If you choose to install Synapse without these packages, you will need to reinstall
 ``pillow`` for changes to be applied, e.g. ``pip uninstall pillow`` ``pip install
 pillow --user``