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geoffm27743354
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February 8, 2022
Question

Multiline captions no longer appear in Grid View

  • February 8, 2022
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Lightroom Classic 11.1

Windows 11

I have always used two lines in Metadata Caption (using Control-Enter to move to the second line). In the past both lines have appeared in Grid View (Expanded Cells), as a single concatenated line, as per snip:

 With LR11, though, only the first line of the Caption is visible:

 The two line version is still visible in Loupe View.

 

I don't know whether the omission of multiline visibility in Grid View is deliberate, or may possibly be an oversight. I realise that space is limited in Grid View, but I find it helpful to see all this information in multiple images at a glance, rather than having to switch each image to Loupe View, or select each image individually to read the Metadata Caption panel.

I know that going forward I could enter all Caption information on one line (maybe using a comma or slash separator) but that doesn't help for legacy images.

Thanks for considering this.

 

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johnrellis
johnrellis
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February 20, 2022

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Interesting -- in my tests, Windows LR (6.14, 10.4, 11.2) deletes the newlines from the captions when displaying in Grid view. But Mac LR (10.4 and 11.2) doesn't. I wonder what's accounting for the difference in behavior you're seeing in LR 11.2?

 

Why don't you select one of those photos, do Metadata > Save Metadata To File, and attach the .xmp sidecar to your reply here.  That will let me see the actual characters of the caption. This might have something to do with the legacy Windows mess of multiple representations of a newline.  

 

Windows LR 6.14:

 

Windows LR 10.4

 

Windows LR 11.2:

 

Expanded Cell settings:

Mac LR 10.4 and 11.2:

 

 

 

 

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geoffm27743354Author
Participant
February 20, 2022

Thanks for having a look at this.

This is Windows LR 11.2 - it behaves the same as 11.1

 I have attached the .xmp sidecar for this file.

Thanks again.

johnrellis
johnrellis
Legend
February 20, 2022

Very curious -- that .xmp sidecar contains this entry for the caption:

   <dc:description>
    <rdf:Alt>
     <rdf:li xml:lang="x-default">Richmond, Tas</rdf:li>
    </rdf:Alt>

It's missing the first line shown in the screenshot.

 

Normally, a multiline caption would get encoded like this:

   <dc:description>
    <rdf:Alt>
     <rdf:li xml:lang="x-default">Line 1&#xA;Line 2</rdf:li>
    </rdf:Alt>
   </dc:description>

 

So I'm not sure what's going on with your catalog.

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