Don't aggressively toss vowels when we're makign waypoint names that aren't

really very short anyway.

diff --git a/gpsbabel/mkshort.c b/gpsbabel/mkshort.c
index 4a156923d9905f90dceec1014fb91bf3b97520d4..d99d28bcb5e0139d37dc4f22a1b092ac12d3b505 100644 (file)
--- a/gpsbabel/mkshort.c
+++ b/gpsbabel/mkshort.c
@@ -472,8 +472,16 @@ mkshort(short_handle h, const char *istring)
        /*
         * Delete vowels starting from the end.  If it fits, quit stomping
         * them.  If we run out of string, give up.
+        * 
+        * Skip this test is our target length is arbitrarily considered 
+        * "long" as it turns out a truncated string of full words is easier
+        * to read than a full string of vowelless words. 
+        *
+        * It also helps units with speech synthesis.
         */
-       replaced = 1;
+       if ( hdl->target_len < 15) {
+               replaced = 1;
+       }
        while (replaced && strlen(ostring) > hdl->target_len) {
                ostring = delete_last_vowel(2, ostring, &replaced);
        }