Hi @ctgraham,
From a developer perspective, I’d probably pass it through strip_tags (or potentially PKPString::html2text) en route to a format that didn’t support HTML, which is to say, most of them. But your point is well taken – if all the infrastructure that OJS has to communicate with won’t support formatting in titles, then we’re likely to introduce an impedance mismatch.
Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team