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This tag outputs the contents of the Entry Excerpt field if one is specified or, if not, an auto-generated excerpt from the Entry Body field followed by an ellipsis ("..."). You can change the length of the auto-generated output of this tag in the weblog's general settings screen.
Context: Used within an MTEntries block
Attributes:
no_generate - When set to 1, the system will not auto-generate an excerpt if the excerpt field of the entry is left blank. Instead it will output nothing.convert_breaks - When set to 1, the entry's specified text formatting filter will be applied. By default, the text formatting is not applied and the excerpt is published either as input or auto-generated by the systemRelated topics: