HAUSE

Excerpt

Someone else's words, typeset — verbatim source material with its markdown rendered and its trims marked.

MEET THE FORM ↓
01 / THE ENCOUNTERA STATEMENT — THE READER READS

A STUDY IN EXCERPT

Someone else's words remain theirs.

A source is not raw material for an unmarked paraphrase. Inspect the actual opening of the Hero form's source account.

HAUSE / components/forms/Hero.tsx — The room's first wall

Kicker, headline, dek: where the chapter says what room you have walked into before it says anything else. The kicker names the room in evidence voice the way a museum labels one; the headline is editorial at the largest size the system has, because the claim carries the room; the dek walks beside the reader in system voice.

the whole document →

The quoted text is taken verbatim from the ingested library documentation; the source link identifies its implementation.

INSPECT THE REUSABLE LIBRARY COMPONENT

the library README — Three modes

Every form under forms/ is one of three kinds. The split was not designed up front — it emerged from real chapters, which is the only way HAUSE accepts structure.

Statements — prose forms in the three voices. The reader reads.

excerpt — trimmed at a word boundary  

02 / THE DECISION

An act.
Not a container.

YOU ARE SAYING SOMETHING

Quoting someone else, verbatim.

Are these words yours? If they are not, they keep their own markdown, their source and their trims.

EXPLORE THE SELECTION GRAMMAR ↗
WHEN THE ACT CHANGES

Snippet

Use Snippet instead when the quoted thing is code or terminal output rather than prose.

What is the Excerpt form in HAUSE, and when do you use it?

The Excerpt form is a HAUSE statement — someone else's words, typeset — verbatim source material with its markdown rendered and its trims marked. Verbatim source material — a specification section, a doctrine passage, a cited document — presented as an object: source and section in evidence voice above an accent rule, the text in system voice with its light markdown (emphasis, inline code, blockquotes, lists, fenced code and simple tables) rendered rather than leaking as asterisks, hyphens, backticks and pipes. A trimmed excerpt ends at a word boundary with a visible mark — never mid-word, never silently.

origin — vindex3 · Ask · 2026-08-29

THE LIBRARY’S OWN ACCOUNT

Behind the form.

components/forms/Excerpt.tsx

Verbatim source material — a specification section, a doctrine passage, a cited document — presented as an object: source and section in evidence voice above an accent rule, the text in system voice with its light markdown (emphasis, inline code, blockquotes, lists, fenced code and simple tables) rendered rather than leaking as asterisks, hyphens, backticks and pipes. A trimmed excerpt ends at a word boundary with a visible mark — never mid-word, never silently.

A statement: the reader reads. Promoted from Ask VINDEX3, where the synthesis tier cites the specification's own passages and the free tier answers with them verbatim.

THE STATEMENT’S DISCIPLINE

Every statement is prose in the three voices — editorial for claims, system for explanation, evidence for measurement. Server-renderable, no interaction: the reader reads, and nothing about the form depends on JavaScript arriving.

03 / MAKE SOMETHINGINSTALL HAUSE ↗

Give it your subject.

The opening study is an authored demonstration, not an additional component API. Expand the library specimen above to inspect the reusable form. Its props below come directly from the source.

REACT · Excerpt

import { Excerpt } from "@chrishayuk/hause/components/forms/Excerpt";

export function Excerpt({
	source,
	heading,
	text,
	trimmed,
	href,
}: {
	/** Which document — evidence voice. */
	source: string;
	/** The section within it. */
	heading?: string;
	/** The verbatim passage (light markdown rendered). */
	text: string;
	/** Whether the passage was cut — shown honestly, never mid-word. */
	trimmed?: boolean;
	/** The whole document, when it lives somewhere linkable. */
	href?: string;
})

The import and the complete props contract. For installation and composition, follow the Build guide.

NOT INVENTED IN ISOLATION

A page needed this.

2026-08-29 · Entered the library from vindex3 · Ask.

Used in hause.design. These exhibitions share an author; this is evidence of reuse, not independent adoption.

03 / THE PROBLEMPAGES MACHINES CANNOT READ ↗Strip a page to its text. If the answer disappears, the page never had one — it had a rendering of one.06 / THE PROBLEMTUTORIAL OR REFERENCE, NEVER BOTH ↗The explanation lives on one page and the clause that governs it on another, and every reader has to guess which half holds the answer they came for.

PUBLISHED 31 AUG 2026 · REVISED 9 SEP 2026 · VERSION 0.1.0

CITE

source components/forms/Excerpt.tsx · origin vindex3 · Ask · 2026-08-29 · site build 3ee5339 · built 2026-09-09

CITE THIS

Web page · 0.1.0

Hay, C. (2026). Excerpt — a HAUSE statement. In HAUSE — a design system for AI (Version 0.1.0). hause.design. https://hause.design/forms/excerpt

The specimen, the source account and the props share one form record. Cite this page or follow its source identifier to inspect the implementation.