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Movable Type: How to emulate an MTEntryIfNotExtended tag

Movable Type has a built in container tag  

<MTEntryIfExtended>

which is often used to show the “More” part of a long entry, or anything else that should be displayed only if the entry is extended:

<MTEntryIfExtended>
    <$MTEntryMore$>
   <div>Special text or page elements for Extended Entries go here</div>
</MTEntryIfExtended> 

But what if you want something to show up only if the entry is NOT extended? There is no corresponding <MTEntryIfNotExtended> tag. 

Fortunately that functionality is simple to replicate using Movable Type variables.

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