eshellman
commented
8 months ago Strings in this element are truncated at word breaks so that the length is <80 character. There are several titles in the db over 300 characters long.
One mitigation might be to add … after truncated strings. A bit tricky given the other uses of the truncated title.
We could also use the full title and use css to allow the title to overflow the element's bounding box. This would be much cleaner, but could have unexpected rendering consequences for long titles.
A simple partial mitigation that would work for this book, and those that have been processed after ~ the beginning of 2023 is to use title_no_subtitle instead of a truncated title. This would look terrible for the older long titles in the backlist, and would probably be called out as an error when the title without subtitle is a single short word.
One more option is to modify the truncation algorithm to not widow single letter words or punctuation at the end of a truncated title.
"won't fix" is also an option 😄
gbnewby
The production team reported that truncation on the landing page doesn't seem quite right.
See: https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/71695
Truncation at the top of the landing page is "a", which seems incorrect. The full subtitle is part of the bibrec & database. This is correct. Truncation within the HTML & text is "China." This seems better than what's at the top of the landing page.