A cap fix looked correct on paper: raise the 200-char limit to 800, deploy, verify. Still broken. The cap was the wrong layer entirely — firstParagraph() filtered blank lines before measuring, so dense text rendered at 73 chars regardless of the cap. The surface problem ('output truncated') had the wrong shape; the real one was that the length being measured was not the length being rendered.
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