I just started playing with these two plugins, but have encountered odd issues in both, and was wondering if anyone could help me. I searched around a bit and was unable to find anything.
The issue in truncate is that it is breaking the first word after the first so many characters in the opening paragraph, then inserting the <p> after them, rather than leaving it before them. The issue in expander is that is shows up properly at first, but then when you expand it, it closes the <p> at the expansion point, causing a break in the paragraph. I created a test page for both at: http://www.8xmedia.com/demo/jquery.html