Horizontal ticker omits nodes

When using the ticker in vertical mode. all defined nodes are displayed. In horizontal mode (i.e. across the screen), the first and last nodes are omitted.
In addition to this: A horizontal ticker is only really useful if the text in the nodes is flattened into a string, but the ticker insists on pushing them across in the original node content format. This results in only the first line being displayed if the ticker height is set to a small value. Which in essence renders the horizontal ticker useless.