Re: TOC cuts long titles in middle for texi2pdf

[Gavin Smith]

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.