Added README.md
Removed line breaks for better experience on Github

Made several small formatting additions as well as increasing
consistency and making scripts more readable. No text changed save for
the link to Fink, which I turned into a hyperlink instead of stating
name and URL.
Removed unnecessary linebreak
Added links to section headers

Also a small cosmetic change to doc-html/
Re-added line breaks
Bring master inline with 4.0.x
Initial stab at porting to Python 2.7 and Apache 2.4.
Initial (full of errors) conversion of the docs to Sphinx