Violation report: clean up Activity History formatting

The "Violation Updated" entries rendered raw change diffs: a "→" arrow the PDF
font can't draw (showed as "!'"), snake_case field names, "—" for empty, and a
dense single-paragraph wall.

- Render-time (fixes existing reports): normalizeTimelineText now maps "→"→"to"
  and smart quotes/dashes/ellipsis to ASCII, prettifies snake_case field labels
  (violation_type → "Violation Type", etc.), and puts each change on its own
  line for proper spacing.
- Logger (future entries): logViolationUpdated/logBulkUpdate now write
  professional notes — "Description / Notes changed from "X" to "Y".",
  "… set to …", "… cleared." — with Title-Case labels, long values truncated to
  80 chars, and one change per line. No arrows or raw field names.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

src/lib/violationPdfGenerator.js

@@ -45,8 +45,32 @@ const safeStr = (val) => {
   return cleanText(String(val));
 };
 
+// Field-name → human label for change logs stored as snake_case.
+const TIMELINE_FIELD_LABELS = {
+  violation_type: 'Violation Type', article_section: 'Article / Section',
+  requested_action: 'Description / Notes', citation: 'Citation', address: 'Address',
+  due_date: 'Due Date', violation_date: 'Violation Date', status: 'Status',
+  stage: 'Notice Level', notice_level: 'Notice Level', priority: 'Priority',
+  notes: 'Notes', assigned_to: 'Assigned To', title: 'Title',
+};
+
 const normalizeTimelineText = (val) => {
-  const text = safeStr(val);
+  let text = safeStr(val);
+  // Map glyphs the PDF font (Helvetica/WinAnsi) can't render to ASCII so they
+  // don't show as artifacts (e.g. the "→" arrow rendering as "!'").
+  text = text
+    .replace(/\s*→\s*/g, ' to ')   // → arrow
+    .replace(/[‘’′]/g, "'") // ' ' ′ smart single quotes
+    .replace(/[“”″]/g, '"') // " " ″ smart double quotes
+    .replace(/–/g, '-')             // – en dash
+    .replace(/…/g, '...');          // … ellipsis
+  // Prettify snake_case field labels left in older change logs.
+  for (const [key, label] of Object.entries(TIMELINE_FIELD_LABELS)) {
+    text = text.replace(new RegExp(`(^|[\\s;(])${key}:`, 'g'), `$1${label}:`);
+  }
+  // Put each change on its own line for readable paragraph spacing.
+  text = text.replace(/;\s+/g, '\n');
+  // Repair stray letter-spacing artifacts on a per-line basis.
   return text.split('\n').map((line) => {
     const singleLetterMatches = line.match(/(?:^|\s)[A-Za-z](?=\s)/g) || [];
     if (singleLetterMatches.length < 8) return line;

src/lib/violationTimelineLogger.ts

@@ -11,6 +11,37 @@ import { v4 as uuidv4 } from "uuid";
 
 // ── Helpers ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
+// Human-readable labels for change logs (avoids raw snake_case in reports).
+const FIELD_LABELS: Record<string, string> = {
+  violation_type: "Violation Type",
+  article_section: "Article / Section",
+  requested_action: "Description / Notes",
+  citation: "Citation",
+  address: "Address",
+  due_date: "Due Date",
+  violation_date: "Violation Date",
+  status: "Status",
+  stage: "Notice Level",
+  notice_level: "Notice Level",
+  priority: "Priority",
+  notes: "Notes",
+  assigned_to: "Assigned To",
+  title: "Title",
+};
+
+const fieldLabel = (field: string): string =>
+  FIELD_LABELS[field] ??
+  field.replace(/_/g, " ").replace(/\b\w/g, (c) => c.toUpperCase());
+
+// Trim a value for an audit note: collapse whitespace, cap long text so a long
+// citation doesn't become a wall of text. Empty/none -> "".
+const fmtChangeValue = (v: unknown): string => {
+  if (v === null || v === undefined) return "";
+  const s = String(v).replace(/\s+/g, " ").trim();
+  if (!s || s === "—") return "";
+  return s.length > 80 ? `${s.slice(0, 80).trimEnd()}...` : s;
+};
+
 const estNow = () =>
   new Date().toLocaleString("en-US", { timeZone: "America/New_York" });
 
@@ -254,14 +285,14 @@ export async function logBulkUpdate(
   const userId = await currentUserId();
 
   const fieldDescriptions: string[] = [];
-  if (changes.status) fieldDescriptions.push(`status → "${changes.status}"`);
+  if (changes.status) fieldDescriptions.push(`Status set to "${changes.status}"`);
-  if (changes.stage) fieldDescriptions.push(`stage → "${changes.stage}"`);
+  if (changes.stage) fieldDescriptions.push(`Notice Level set to "${changes.stage}"`);
-  if (changes.priority) fieldDescriptions.push(`priority → "${changes.priority}"`);
+  if (changes.priority) fieldDescriptions.push(`Priority set to "${changes.priority}"`);
-  if (changes.due_date) fieldDescriptions.push(`due date → ${changes.due_date}`);
+  if (changes.due_date) fieldDescriptions.push(`Due Date set to ${changes.due_date}`);
-  if (changes.violation_date) fieldDescriptions.push(`violation date → ${changes.violation_date}`);
+  if (changes.violation_date) fieldDescriptions.push(`Violation Date set to ${changes.violation_date}`);
-  if (changes.notes) fieldDescriptions.push("notes updated");
+  if (changes.notes) fieldDescriptions.push("Notes updated");
 
-  const details = `Bulk update by ${userName}: ${fieldDescriptions.join(", ")}.`;
+  const details = `Bulk update by ${userName}. ${fieldDescriptions.join("; ")}.`;
 
   await appendTimelineEntry(violationId, {
     action: "Bulk Update Applied",
@@ -285,12 +316,18 @@ export async function logViolationUpdated(
   const userName = await currentUserName();
   const userId = await currentUserId();
 
-  const fieldDescriptions = Object.entries(changes).map(
+  const fieldDescriptions = Object.entries(changes).map(([field, { from, to }]) => {
-    ([field, { from, to }]) =>
+    const label = fieldLabel(field);
-      `${field}: "${from || "—"}" → "${to || "—"}"`
+    const f = fmtChangeValue(from);
-  );
+    const t = fmtChangeValue(to);
+    if (!f && !t) return `${label} updated.`;
+    if (!f) return `${label} set to "${t}".`;
+    if (!t) return `${label} cleared.`;
+    return `${label} changed from "${f}" to "${t}".`;
+  });
 
-  const details = `Violation updated by ${userName}. Changes: ${fieldDescriptions.join("; ")}.`;
+  // One change per line for readable paragraph spacing in the PDF/report.
+  const details = `Violation updated by ${userName}.\n${fieldDescriptions.join("\n")}`;
 
   await appendTimelineEntry(violationId, {
     action: "Violation Updated",