Leading articles ("A") elided from titles in author works list

[tfmorris]

I think this started happening relatively recently. The leading "A" of work titles is getting dropped in the listing of works on an author's page. This appears to just be a rendering issue because the JSON data https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2240495A/works.json and the work page are both correct.

Evidence / Screenshot (if possible)

Relevant url?

https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2240495A/works.json https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2240495A

[cdrini]

How odd.... the same thing appears to be happening on the search page:

https://openlibrary.org/search?q=memoir+on+the+phylogeny+of+the+jaw+muscles+in+recent+and+fossil+vertebrates&mode=everything

But the JSON is correct https://openlibrary.org/search.json?q=memoir+on+the+phylogeny+of+the+jaw+muscles+in+recent+and+fossil+vertebrates&mode=everything&fields=key,title,editions

[cdrini]

The rendering code itself looks straightforward:

https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/blob/556534ffe5f55f4ae28524ce497db77fdbc73c0d/openlibrary/macros/SearchResultsWork.html#L29-L33

The bug must be higher up in the stack

[tfmorris]

I've also seen it drop the leading article "the", but today the example above is rendering correctly for me, so I'm not quite sure what to make of it. This wasn't a one time issue though. I've seen multiple examples over the course of more than a week.