How do a format excerpts?

Can you post a link please?

Sorry, yes. It is:

www.legalprojectmanagement.info

You need to make sure the correct text filters are applied to the excerpts see http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/appendices/modifiers/filters.html

Dear Peaston,

In other words you will need to replace:

<mt:Excerpt>

with:

<mt:Excerpt convert_breaks="1">

Kind Regards,
Mihai Bocsaru

I already have convert_breaks set to "1". Here is my "Entry Summary" template. Can anyone tell me what it isn't working?

<$mt:EntryTrackbackData$>
<div id="entry-<$mt:EntryID$>" class="entry-asset asset hentry">
    <div class="asset-header">
        <h2 class="asset-name entry-title"><a href="<$mt:EntryPermalink$>" rel="bookmark"><$mt:EntryTitle$></a></h2>
        <div class="asset-meta">
            <span class="byline">
    <mt:If tag="EntryAuthorDisplayName">
                By <span class="vcard author"><$mt:EntryAuthorLink show_hcard="1"$></span> on <abbr class="published" title="<$mt:EntryDate format_name="iso8601"$>"><$mt:EntryDate format="%x %X"$></abbr>
    <mt:Else>
                <abbr class="published" title="<$mt:EntryDate format_name="iso8601"$>"><$mt:EntryDate format="%x %X"$></abbr>
    </mt:If>
            </span>
<mt:Unless name="hide_counts" eq="1">
            <mt:IfCommentsActive><span class="separator">|</span> <a href="<$mt:EntryPermalink$>#comments"><$mt:EntryCommentCount singular="1 Comment" plural="# Comments" none="No Comments"$></a></mt:IfCommentsActive>
            <mt:IfPingsActive><span class="separator">|</span> <a href="<$mt:EntryPermalink$>#trackbacks"><$mt:EntryTrackbackCount singular="1 TrackBack" plural="# TrackBacks" none="No TrackBacks"$></a></mt:IfPingsActive>
</mt:Unless>
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="asset-content entry-content">
<mt:If tag="EntryBody">
        <div class="asset-body">
            <mt:EntryExcerpt convert_breaks="1">
<BR><BR>
<div class="asset-more-link">
            Continue reading <a href="<$mt:EntryPermalink$>#more" rel="bookmark"><$mt:EntryTitle$></a>.
        </div>
        </div>
</mt:If>
<mt:If name="entry_archive">
    <mt:EntryIfTagged>
        <div class="entry-tags">
            <h4>Tags<span class="delimiter">:</span></h4>
            <ul>
                <li><mt:EntryTags glue='<span class="delimiter">,</span></li> <li>'><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="location.href='<$mt:TagSearchLink encode_js="1"$>';return false;" rel="tag"><$mt:TagName$></a></mt:EntryTags></li>
            </ul>
        </div>
    </mt:EntryIfTagged>
</mt:If>
<mt:If tag="EntryMore" convert_breaks="0">
        <div class="asset-more-link">
            Continue reading <a href="<$mt:EntryPermalink$>#more" rel="bookmark"><$mt:EntryTitle$></a>.
        </div>
</mt:If>
    </div>
    <div class="asset-footer"></div>
</div>

Actually, I recall from experience that indeed the formatting was lost when I've used EntryExcerpt even when adding that formatting setting.

Are you entering custom information on this Excerpt field, or is it just that you want the first 40 (or maybe different number) of words from EntryBody?

You may like to experiment with:

<mt:EntryBody words="40">

And see what results you get!

Also, it would be good if you can provide me a sample of an Excerpt with the formatting coding that you would like to get.

Doing that I could experiment a little bit for you.

Thanks Mihai. I've configured it to automatically create the excerpts using the first 100 words.

I've tried Mihai's way of "mt:EntryBody words="40"", it doesn't work either.

You're welcome Peaston!

Baiyan, please provide me a direct URL to your blog and I will check.

Mihai, here is the URL: http://www.debuggingnow.com/blog/

Mihai,

If you look at Peaston's blog, his problem has't solved yet, in almost half a year:

http://www.legalprojectmanagement.info/

His blog is of English, would you please take a look if there is anything wrong?

-Baiyan