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I must admit I had forgotten about the tooltip text! Looking at the code the value of -1 to avoid truncation has not been honoured for some time. I can look at allowing it again easily enough.
The OPDS standard specifies a short summary and a long summary. The short summary is constrained to be plain text whereas the full summary can have embedded HTML formatting. That setting is for the short summary that is normally displayed as an additional line or two when showing a list of books. eReader software that is OPDS aware should use the full summary when it makes sense - not the short summary. In Calibre2opds generated catalogs the full summary is in effect the Calibre Comments field with some additional information added.
The difference between these two different types of summary is most obvious when looking at HTML format catalogs. The short summary is displayed at the same level as a list of books, while the full summary is displayed when you drill down to a particular book.
In particular when you ask for the metadata for a specific book the ereader should be using the full summary. It sounds as if yours is not? One (otherwise excellent) ereader app that I know gets this wrong is Marvin on iOS - it always uses the short summary. Other iOS ereader apps such as MegaReader use the short and full summaries as appropriate. I have emailed the Marvin author about this but had no response. I see there is now a Marvin forum on MobileRead so perhaps I should bring it up there.
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