I know what you mean about the weird breaking on spaces & stretching beyond the window -- that's why I ended up doing what I did, changing the form field to be multi-values.  I'll give your solution a shot the next time I bump into this -- thanks!

 

But I wonder if you couldn't just use the converters & instead of doing:

 

                    <xp:this.converter>
                            <xp:customConverter>
                                <xp:this.getAsObject><![CDATA[#{javascript:@Explode(value,"\n");}]]></xp:this.getAsObject>
                                <xp:this.getAsString><![CDATA[#{javascript:@Implode(value,"\n");}]]></xp:this.getAsString>
                            </xp:customConverter>
                        </xp:this.converter>

 

you could do something like this:

 

                        <xp:this.converter>
                            <xp:customConverter>
                                <xp:this.getAsObject><![CDATA[#{javascript:@Explode(value,"\n");}]]></xp:this.getAsObject>
                                <xp:this.getAsString><![CDATA[#{javascript:@Replace(@Implode(value,"\n");" ";"&nbsp;");}]]></xp:this.getAsString>
                            </xp:customConverter>
                        </xp:this.converter>

 

Not sure if you'd have to alter the getAsObject part as well to get it back into the Notes field properly.  Haven't tried this so I don't know if it would work.