user-configurable maximum length of note's title

hanneshorn
What would it take to make the supported maximum length of a note's title (what is displayed in Zotero's title pane or what is displayed when a note is used as reference in a document) user configurable? Right now a note's title text is truncated to 120 chars.

thanks,
H
  • adamsmith
    edited January 9, 2014
    there's not going to be a preference, but there's an open ticket to take into account the width of the middle column:
    https://github.com/zotero/zotero/issues/303
    edit: I don't think the reference in a document issue is going to be taken into account - that's just kind of a byproduct and to make notes truly useful for that purpose would require more substantial (though imho highly useful) changes
  • hanneshorn
    I cloned the zotero source tree from https://github.com/zotero/zotero to my windows box, which let me I find where the current limit of 120 is set:

    it is in "zotero-standalone-build\modules\zotero\chrome\content\zotero\xpcom\data\notes.js", line 30

    After changing the limit to some bigger number (in my case I used 500) and building the standalone version as described in http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/client_coding/building_the_standalone_client,
    I now have a zotero version with a more useful notes feature.

    kindly,
    Hans

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