space delimited list using TV and checkboxes

How do I make a space delimited list using a TV and several checkboxes? I put the widget on to delimited list and put a "space" in there, but it defaults back to a comma. I have also put in " " in the delimiter field and while this produces spaces, when I call the TV [*tvname*] it doesn’t word wrap. It’s as if it’s treating the spaces as one long word.

Is there another way to get space delimiters?

You will probably need to create your own TV output formatter http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/Adding_TV_Widgets_without_hacking_the_core

I’m not sure if that will work, as I was using this for tagging and I think the values need to be stored with a real space instead of a fake &nsbp;.

I could let the user enter their own tags, but to prevent user input errors I hope the checkbox approach would have worked as there is a limited set of tags to apply.

Is there some other way I could get a space delimited list while restricting what the user can enter in?

I don’t know what you want to do with this space-delimited list.
But, if it’s for outputting at frontend you can create a simple snippet, which converts commas to spaces.
Or use a special unique placeholder as delimitter and replace them per plugin with spaces.

Working on this same problem right now.
Made it in a way that the tags I check will go in my class which will be used in a jQuery script.
Anyone knows a solution about this?

For a similar purpose - to choose CSS classes out of a list - I did this trick:
Use an empty delimiter, but add to every name of the available options a leading space. So for example you have the options In the case that the first two options are ticked you then get the result (where the leading blank is no harm).
Maybe this idea could be helpful for your intention.

That doesn’t work cause it automatically gives the delimiter an ’ ..