Adding text to a list page

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I have a list page generated with layout/_default/list.html
All good so far.

If I want multiple list pages each almost the same but with a idiosyncratic paragraph at the top, where do I put that text?

In this example the art/ directory will have two sub-directories each with set of sub-directories each for a single art work. Currently there is only one so I can put the text in layouts/_default/list.html but when I make the change to `art/ that will not work.

I tried the _index.md in the art/ directory but that is not the correct place.

My content tree is like:

.
├── _index.md
├── about
│   ├── who.md
└── art
    ├── Abc
    │   ├── Abc.png
    │   ├── index.md
    ├── Kdg
    │   ├── Kdg.png
    │   ├── index.md

After the change…

.
├── _index.md
├── about
│   ├── who.md
└── art
    ├── 2019
    │   ├── Abc
    │   │   ├── Abc.png
    │   │   ├── index.md
    │   └── Kdg
    │       ├── Kdg.png
    │       ├── index.md
    ├── 2020
    │   ├── Mam
    │   │   ├── Mam.png
    │   │   ├── index.md
    │   └── Mum
    │       ├── Mum.jpg
    │       ├── index.md
    ├── _index.md

Is this clear? The 2019/ and 2020 list templates (is that the correct term?) will each will need different content and the art/ list template will be completely different.

My layout tree is:

.
├── _default
│   ├── baseof.html
│   ├── list.html
│   ├── single.html
├── about
│   ├── single.html
├── index.html
└── partials
    ├── date-and-tags.html
    ├── head.html
    ├── nav.html
    ├── script.html
    └── style.html
2

Duh!

layouts/art/list.html
That is the correct place, correct?

_default/... is most general and make more specific by copying the layout structure of content/ under layout/???

3

Correct. A section can have its own templates.

FYI if you wanna force a page to use a different template, checkout the type and layout front matter params.

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