Title handling

This likely is beyond the scope of plugin support but I don’t lose anything by asking, so: Does anyone know a way to hook into the way this plugin outputs the post title?

I have a custom function on my blog for handling untitled posts, wherein for some contexts I generate what I call a “pseudo-title” (basically the first eight words and an ellipsis), and I was trying to find a way to fire this off for this plugin, but because it’s using echo $hpost->post_title; and not a call to the_title, I can’t find a way to do it.

Thanks.