[1-poem-excerpt] Hi, We have a poetry forum. In a single post, it looks normal like a poem, but the excerpt display view becomes a paragraph or combined text style on the homepage or category listings. The original post views are lost. I tried different things, different themes or the “topic list previews” plugin didn’t work. How can I show excerpts like poetry (e.g. first three lines or max lines with excerpt length) on homepage or specific category page. Thanks for support.

Hello, I think you can try it with white-space: pre-line it will keeps the topic line breaks in excerpt. :slightly_smiling_face: Add this to Common > CSS .topic-list { a.topic-excerpt { white-space: pre-line; } } [Screenshot 2023-02-05 at 1.43.46] [Screenshot 2023-02-05 at 1.45.06]

You might check the value of SiteSetting traditional markdown linebreaks. The description reads: “Use traditional linebreaks in Markdown, which require two trailing spaces for a linebreak.” That is a bit confusing, but I think that you have this checked and you want it unchecked. Or maybe I’m confused.

Thanks Jay, I tried but it didn’t work. I don’t know how but in the excerpt it combines all the sentences into one paragraph

Hi Proje DEV! :slight_smile: Are you using Topic List Excerpts? I believe you need a plugin if you want to override it to keep line breaks. I think his is what would need to be overridden: discourse/app/controllers/topics_controller.rb at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub More specifically, this line: app/controllers/topics_controller.rb main render_json_dump(post_ids: @topic_view.posts.pluck(:id)) end def posts params.require(:topic_id) params.permit(:post_ids, :post_number, :username_filters, :filter, :include_suggested) include_suggested = params[:include_suggested] == "true" options = { filter_post_number: params[:post_number], post_ids: params[:post_ids], asc: ActiveRecord::Type::Boolean.new.deserialize(params[:asc]), filter: params[:filter], include_suggested: include_suggested, include_related: include_suggested, } fetch_topic_view(options) render_json_dump( I didn’t try, but this may be useful for this purpose: Override existing Discourse methods in plugins I’d be happy to have a look, but I don’t have a development install right now (and I’m bad at coding, so hopefully someone more skilled will have a more suitable answer). :slight_smile:

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ProjeDEV (Proje DEV) February 5, 2023, 12:58am 6

Thanks Don. It works

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