Getting line breaks between words

[Shalom Pennington]

Is there a way to have InDesign wrap to a new line between words? Here's why ...

I'm working on a VDP (Variable Data Printing) project of an eye chart that will include information from a database using XMPie. To get the effect I'm looking for the lines to break between words. To give you a visual idea of what I'm trying to do, here is a preview:

<http://printing.boisestate.edu/eyechart.html>

The one on the right (Spaced Version) looks the way I want, but I can only get it to work by putting a space between each and every letter and triple spaces between words. Now, if I was doing just one, that would be fine, but since this is VDP project and there will be hundreds printed and each with different text, it makes things a bit more interesting.

[Gerald_Singelmann@adobeforums.com]

- replace every space by non-breaking spaces (^s)
- create a character style for each size you need
- create a nested style that applies the character styles consecutively at each forced linebreak (^n)
- apply forced justify to the text
- enter shift return where you want the lines to break

I am no expert in XMPie but most of this should be automatic after the initial setup. Worst case is that you need placeholders for ^s and ^n in the text processed by xmpie followed by two search/replace.