diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index 0469ad6e34bf5ab5eece405ee72cbcf39020ed78..4d7ee9b4eb338db8fcd0ea8ac8beca94ed5cbc1f 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@
 ^README\.Rmd$
 ^README-.*\.png$
 ^cran-comments.md
+^CRAN-RELEASE$
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index a951e7e3aa0d9f0c22502f9c6f69d9c52c93df89..baf4530a6c6006392e5b99c088934496dab1b154 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ LazyData: true
 Package: vocaldia
 Type: Package
 Title: Create and Manipulate Vocalisation Diagrams
-Version: 0.8.3
-Date: 2020-05-07
+Version: 0.8.4
+Date: 2022-08-14
 Authors@R: person("Saturnino", "Luz", email = "luzs@acm.org", role = c("aut", "cre"))
 Description: Create adjacency matrices of vocalisation graphs from
   dataframes containing sequences of speech and silence intervals,
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Description: Create adjacency matrices of vocalisation graphs from
 Depends: R (>= 3.0.0)
 Suggests: igraph, foreign
 Imports: graphics, stats, utils
-RoxygenNote: 7.1.0
+RoxygenNote: 7.2.1
 Encoding: UTF-8
 URL: https://git.ecdf.ed.ac.uk/sluzfil/vocaldia
-BugReports: https://git.ecdf.ed.ac.uk/sluzfil/vocaldia/issues
+BugReports: https://git.ecdf.ed.ac.uk/sluzfil/vocaldia/-issues
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 1abd1a28a5eb7f91db1b34b940db1424ef501e0f..6888d9f1b1a670619c4d6858f8c5a295c9d84e08 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,7 +1,17 @@
-* 0.8.3: Added code to process DementiaBank files (from old dementiabank.R)
+# Changes
 
-* 0.8.2: fixed conditional dependency on igraph package.
+0.8.4
+- Fixed math rendering
+- Fixed NEWS.md format
 
-* 0.8.1: fixed minor problem with temporary files in examples.
+0.8.3 
+- Added code to process DementiaBank files (from old dementiabank.R)
 
-* Initial release
+0.8.2
+- fixed conditional dependency on igraph package.
+
+0.8.1
+- fixed minor problem with temporary files in examples.
+
+0.8.0
+- Initial release
diff --git a/R/dbank.R b/R/dbank.R
index e30d7b8f31e85901eedc15f59897ae4125f3b7f6..7bc43823daec2b75d07b0f0aa3d3c406cba69b29 100644
--- a/R/dbank.R
+++ b/R/dbank.R
@@ -134,7 +134,6 @@ appendSpeechRate <- function(t,
     t
 }
 
-
 ##' getSyllablesAndSilences: process Praat's grid for syllable nuclei, based on De Jong's approach 
 ##'
 ##' @title getSyllablesAndSilences: process Praat's grid for syllable nuclei
diff --git a/R/markov.R b/R/markov.R
index 6f3d05c2086d5df5e3ea1e1f26c5e5a42cf911e2..5818691970b55f3abcd9dcc83d1b578518838c3f 100644
--- a/R/markov.R
+++ b/R/markov.R
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ startmatrix.matrixseries <- function(mseries){
 ##' Anonymise a vocalisation diagram
 ##'
 ##' "anonymise" a \code{vocaldia} turn taking probability matrix by
-##' replacing speaker names by variables \eqn{s_1,...,s_n$ s.t. $s_1} is
+##' replacing speaker names by variables \eqn{s_1,...,s_n s.t. s_1} is
 ##' the speaker who spoke the least and \eqn{s_n} the one who did the most
 ##' talking.
 ##' @title anonymise: anonymise a vocalisation diagram
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
index 7b93246bd3c92c3fddcadb857c75eb5c5e423d4a..5e88b91785a91a5da03a6623cfa1312567ee4071 100644
--- a/cran-comments.md
+++ b/cran-comments.md
@@ -1,22 +1,27 @@
 ## Test environments
-* Linux luzs 4.4.0-64-generic, R version 3.2.3
-* i386-w64-mingw32 (32-bit), R version 3.3.3
-* x86_64-w64-mingw32 (64-bit) R version 3.4.0 beta
+* Linux vodina 5.15.0-43-generic, R version 4.1.2
+* Ubuntu Linux 20.04.1 LTS, R-release, GCC
+* Windows Server 2022, R-devel, 64 bit
+* Fedora Linux, R-devel, clang, gfortran
 
 ## R CMD check results
-There were no ERRORs or WARNINGs. 
+There were no ERRORs, WARNINGs
 
-There was 1 NOTE:
+1 NOTE:
 
-* checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... NOTE
-Maintainer: ‘Saturnino Luz <luzs@acm.org>’
+```r
+── vocaldia 0.8.4: NOTE
 
-Days since last update: 1
+  Build ID:   vocaldia_0.8.4.tar.gz-b138c4ffe23747d0a75fdffa91f0ded5
+  Platform:   Windows Server 2022, R-devel, 64 bit
+  Submitted:  4m 53s ago
+  Build time: 4m 34.6s
 
-Possibly mis-spelled words in DESCRIPTION:
-  Dabbs (15:32)
-  Feldstein (14:61)
-  Jaffe (14:51)
-  Ruback (15:42)
+❯ checking for detritus in the temp directory ... NOTE
+  Found the following files/directories:
+    'lastMiKTeXException'
+```
+
+I believe this note is due to an error in miktex on the windows VM
+used for checking.
 
-(The spellings are correct.)
diff --git a/man/anonymise.Rd b/man/anonymise.Rd
index a8d1acfe1bb61ca43c446e2c7fcaccbc26818243..c932f44ac6e06c94a23bb9c5aec12a9c4ee3584b 100644
--- a/man/anonymise.Rd
+++ b/man/anonymise.Rd
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Anonymise a vocalisation diagram
 }
 \details{
 "anonymise" a \code{vocaldia} turn taking probability matrix by
-replacing speaker names by variables \eqn{s_1,...,s_n$ s.t. $s_1} is
+replacing speaker names by variables \eqn{s_1,...,s_n s.t. s_1} is
 the speaker who spoke the least and \eqn{s_n} the one who did the most
 talking.
 }
diff --git a/man/vocaldia-package.Rd b/man/vocaldia-package.Rd
index 689bab53087b8b53e2bced7b43c83e84ce48c496..10ee99243260bda300febc991ab96997f25d1bb7 100644
--- a/man/vocaldia-package.Rd
+++ b/man/vocaldia-package.Rd
@@ -6,17 +6,7 @@
 \alias{vocaldia-package}
 \title{vocaldia: Create and Manipulate Vocalisation Diagrams}
 \description{
-Create adjacency matrices of vocalisation graphs from
-  dataframes containing sequences of speech and silence intervals,
-  transforming these matrices into Markov diagrams, and generating
-  datasets for classification of these diagrams by 'flattening' them
-  and adding global properties (functionals) etc.  Vocalisation
-  diagrams date back to early work in psychiatry (Jaffe and Feldstein,
-  1970) and social psychology (Dabbs and Ruback, 1987) but have only
-  recently been employed as a data representation method for machine
-  learning tasks including meeting segmentation (Luz, 2012)
-  <doi:10.1145/2328967.2328970> and classification (Luz,
-  2013) <doi:10.1145/2522848.2533788>.
+Create adjacency matrices of vocalisation graphs from dataframes containing sequences of speech and silence intervals, transforming these matrices into Markov diagrams, and generating datasets for classification of these diagrams by 'flattening' them and adding global properties (functionals) etc. Vocalisation diagrams date back to early work in psychiatry (Jaffe and Feldstein, 1970) and social psychology (Dabbs and Ruback, 1987) but have only recently been employed as a data representation method for machine learning tasks including meeting segmentation (Luz, 2012) \doi{10.1145/2328967.2328970} and classification (Luz, 2013) \doi{10.1145/2522848.2533788}.
 }
 \references{
 S. Luz. Automatic identification of experts and performance
@@ -41,7 +31,7 @@ S. Luz. Automatic identification of experts and performance
 Useful links:
 \itemize{
   \item \url{https://git.ecdf.ed.ac.uk/sluzfil/vocaldia}
-  \item Report bugs at \url{https://git.ecdf.ed.ac.uk/sluzfil/vocaldia/issues}
+  \item Report bugs at \url{https://git.ecdf.ed.ac.uk/sluzfil/vocaldia/-issues}
 }
 
 }