update NEWS and DESCRIPTION
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 Package: revealjs
 Type: Package
 Title: R Markdown Format for 'reveal.js' Presentations
-Version: 0.7.9001
-Date: 2016-08-01
+Version: 0.8
+Date: 2016-12-14
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Hakim", "El Hattab", role = c("aut", "cph"),
        comment = "reveal.js-3.2.0, https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js"),