GtkAboutDialog: Add formatting examples to the docs

We were not very explicit about the expected format for links
and email addresses in the strings, so give some explicit examples.
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Matthias Clasen
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* a program like its logo, name, copyright, website and license. It is
* also possible to give credits to the authors, documenters, translators
* and artists who have worked on the program. An about dialog is typically
* opened when the user selects the `About` option from
* the `Help` menu. All parts of the dialog are optional.
* opened when the user selects the `About` option from the `Help` menu.
* All parts of the dialog are optional.
*
* About dialogs often contain links and email addresses. GtkAboutDialog
* displays these as clickable links. By default, it calls gtk_show_uri()
* when a user clicks one. The behaviour can be overridden with the
* #GtkAboutDialog::activate-link signal.
*
* To specify a person with an email address, use a string like
* "Edgar Allan Poe <edgar@poe.com>". To specify a website with a title,
* use a string like "GTK+ team http://www.gtk.org".
*
* To make constructing a GtkAboutDialog as convenient as possible, you can
* use the function gtk_show_about_dialog() which constructs and shows a dialog
* and keeps it around so that it can be shown again.