How can I keep post views on lists

[ProjeDEV]

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.

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

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.

[ProjeDEV]

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

[Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin)]

Hi Proje DEV!

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/topics_controller.rb at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub

More specifically, this line:

discourse/discourse/blob/main/app/controllers/topics_controller.rb#L304

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).

[Don]

Hello, I think you can try it with white-space: pre-line it will keeps the topic line breaks in excerpt.

Add this to Common > CSS

.topic-list {
  a.topic-excerpt {
    white-space: pre-line;
  }
}

[ProjeDEV]

Thanks Don. It works