Can I display the description of an image within a gallery?

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  kimmilan · Member · Jun 29, 2011 at 10:31 pm

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  Currently only the caption is displayed for the images in my gallery (on my Test) page. I would like to either display the description or have a way to add about 3 lines of text within the caption with page returns so the text is on different lines. Example:
  Sweet Ride
  Acrylic on canvas
  20 x 20 in.
  SOLD
  Blog url: http://kimmilanart.wordpress.com/

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  andrewspittle · Staff · Jun 30, 2011 at 1:04 am

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  It looks like you found a way of manually doing this. Unfortunately there isn’t a way to automatically have the description for images show in the gallery.

  Having the description appear on attachment pages is an option for themes but it’s not a default feature.

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  kimmilan · Member · Jun 30, 2011 at 9:39 am

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  Thanks Andrew – but the way I manually did it on my Gallery vs the Test page I can only do 1 column of images. If there was a manual way of putting multiple columns of images that would be an alternative. Do you know off hand if Modularity Lite theme supports attachment pages?

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  ranh · Member · Jun 30, 2011 at 10:59 am

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  Modularity Lite shows image descriptions when viewing them as attachments – see for example here:
  http://kimmilanart.wordpress.com/home/img_5452/