Zotero 7: Info tab display of long text

edited August 16, 2023
I observe some problems to display long text information in the Info tab.

1) For a parent item: Screenshot 01.
a) The Title and the Abstract cannot wrap the text if there is no space.
b) There is a strange display rule that makes showing the First Name a higher priority than the Last Name. I think that the Last Name is probably more important to keep visitble. Here, the last name is "LastName", but Zotero only displays "La...". It is not really due to space limitations, considering the very long frist name displayed. In some other cases, only the first letter of the Last Name remains.

2) Same problem for the Title and Filename of a child item: Screenshot 02. But this time it can actually display some "..." to say that it is cut.

3) For the child item, the title can actually wrap if it contains spaces. but not the Filename: Screenshot 03. This is quite problematic, as we cannot even see the extension of the file, to determine wheter it is an EPUB, Video, ...

It would be nice to improve all these fields in the following way:
A) Wrap text even when there is no space
B) If needed, add a the ability to hide the content beyond the first line like for the abstract.
C) For the display of authors, beyond the problem mentionned above, I don't understand the very long "Switch to single field" icon. I will probably use it once a year. It is nice, but it probably belongs to a right-click menu rather than a permanent invasive icon.
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