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[tut]

Howdy @jmooring. This solution does not render some symbols (such as "") correctly unless $.Page.RenderString is added to the partial.

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{{ partial "truncate" (dict "input" .Summary "maxLength" 50) }}

layouts/partials/truncate.html

{{ $input := .input | plainify | replaceRE `\r` "" | replaceRE `\n` " " | replaceRE `\s{2,}` " " }} {{ $maxLength := .maxLength | int }} {{ $endMarks := slice "." "?" "!" }} {{ $regex := printf `(?s)^.{0,%d}\W` (sub $maxLength 1) }} {{ $truncated := index (findRE $regex $input) 0 | replaceRE `\s+$` "" }} {{ if not (in $endMarks (sub…

[jmooring]

Yeah, the OP wanted something for a meta element. The objective was plain text.

[tut]

I get it. I adapted it for my home and list pages.