If the line is long, I do see that it would be more readable to have a length with no dots, to show the line continues on the next line. I have not seen that it was splitting 70%/30%. We can stick with 70%/30%.
> Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2020 at 3:22 PM > From: "Gavin Smith" <[email protected]> > To: "Christopher Dimech" <[email protected]> > Cc: "help-texinfo gnu" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: TOC cuts long titles in middle for texi2pdf > > On Sat, Nov 07, 2020 at 01:23:00PM +0100, Christopher Dimech wrote: > > Can cutting be done this way? It is not as the simplistic operation > > as cutting by half. > > > > Regards > > Christopher > > Maybe but this part of the code is complicated and it would risk > making it worse in other cases. There are test cases in > texinfo-tex-test.texi in the Texinfo repository which you could try > with different configurations. > > Currently, it attempts to split the line roughly 70%/30% in length. > (See \finishentry in texinfo.tex). It is probably not possible to do > it by word count. > > I think the first line should be longer than the second line, but > apart from that I am not convinced that it looks better to have the > first line longer. A more even split may be more readable. >
