Add features section in README and update changelog

README.md

@@ -5,13 +5,33 @@
 
 __OpenXML - Read, Write and Create Word documents in PHP.__
 
-PHPWord is a library written in PHP that create word documents.
+PHPWord is a library written in pure PHP and providing a set of classes that allow you to write to and read from different document file formats, like Word (.docx), WordPad (.rtf), Libre/OpenOffice Writer (.odt).
 
-No Windows operating system is needed for usage because the result are docx files (Office Open XML) that can be
+No Windows operating system is needed for usage because the resulting DOCX, ODT, or RTF files can be opened by all major [word processing softwares](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_word_processors).
-opened by all major office software.
+
+PHPWord is an open source project licensed under [LGPL](license.md). PHPWord is unit tested to make sure that the released versions are stable.
 
 __Want to contribute?__ Fork us!
 
+## Features
+
+* Set document properties, e.g. title, subject, and creator.
+* Create document sections with different settings, e.g. portrait/landscape, page size, and page numbering
+* Create header and footer for each sections
+* Set default font type, font size, and paragraph style
+* Use UTF-8 and East Asia fonts/characters
+* Define custom font styles (e.g. bold, italic, color) and paragraph styles (e.g. centered, multicolumns, spacing) either as named style or inline in text
+* Insert paragraphs, either as a simple text or complex one (a text run) that contains other elements
+* Insert titles (headers) and table of contents
+* Insert text breaks and page breaks
+* Insert and format images, either local, remote, or as page watermarks
+* Insert binary OLE Objects such as Excel or Visio
+* Insert and format table with customized properties for each rows (e.g. repeat as header row) and cells (e.g. background color, rowspan, colspan)
+* Insert list items as bulleted, numbered, or multilevel
+* Insert hyperlinks
+* Create document from templates
+* ... and many more features on progress
+
 ## Requirements
 
 * PHP version 5.3.0 or higher
@@ -33,6 +53,8 @@ the following lines to your ``composer.json``.
 
 ## Documentation
 
+We're reorganizing our documentation. Below are some of the most important things that you needed to get PHPWord creates document for you in no time.
+
 ### Table of contents
 
 1. [Basic usage](#basic-usage)
@@ -52,7 +74,7 @@ the following lines to your ``composer.json``.
 <a name="basic-usage"></a>
 #### Basic usage
 
-The following is a basic example of the PHPWord library.
+The following is a basic example of the PHPWord library. More examples are provided in the (sample folder)[samples/].
 
 ```php
 $PHPWord = new PHPWord();

changelog.txt

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ Changes in branch for release 0.8.0 :
 - General:  (ivanlanin)       GH-93             - General: PHPWord_Style_Font refactoring
 - General:  (ivanlanin)       GH-93             - Font: Use points instead of halfpoints internally. Conversion to halfpoints done during XML Writing.
 - Bugfix:   (ivanlanin)       GH-94             - General: PHPWord_Shared_Drawing::centimetersToPixels() conversion
-- Feature:  (ivanlanin)                         - Paragraph: setTabs() function
+- Feature:  (ivanlanin)       GH-92             - Paragraph: setTabs() function
 - Feature:  (ivanlanin)       GH-99             - General: Basic support for TextRun on ODT and RTF
 - Feature:  (ivanlanin)       GH-104            - Reader: Basic Reader for Word2007
 - Feature:  (bskrtich )       GH-109            - TextRun: Allow Text Break in Text Run
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Changes in branch for release 0.8.0 :
 - Feature:  (bskrtich )       GH-103            - General: Setting for XMLWriter Compatibility option
 - Feature:  (ivanlanin)       GH-122            - MemoryImage: Allow remote image when allow_url_open = on
 - Bugfix:   (ivanlanin)       GH-125            - Footnote: Corrupt DOCX reported by MS Word when sections > 1 and not every sections have footnote
-- Feature:  (ivanlanin)       GH-18             - TextBreak: Allow style for font break
+- Feature:  (ivanlanin)       GH-18             - TextBreak: Allow font and paragraph style for text break
 - QA:       (Progi1984)                         - UnitTests
 
 Changes in branch for release 0.7.0 :