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Damon BellSPA doesn’t do paragraph text. It only does point text. It is really meant for single line text items, not paragraphs.
With point text, there is no auto text wrap and new lines are hard returns (enter key). I don’t think there is any way in a data sheet to program a hard return into the data cell.
The reason why SPA has to use point text is because paragraph text won’t expend and then the text become invisible if it is too large to fit. Also, there is no way for text auto text sizing to work in paragraph text.
What you are doing is really outside the scope of what SPA was intended to do…. however, this option here could work.
Use a separate text layer for each row, in your case bottom, middle, top. Each text row will 1 LINE only.
Name the layers in the PSD this
SPATEXT1-RM
SPATEXT2-RM
SPATEXT3-RM
SPATEXT4-RM (can be used for 4th row)
SPATEXT5-RM (can be used for 5th row)
In the CSV headers, just use SPATEXT1, SPATEXT2, SPATEXT3 (without -RM). Add only the text for each row in the CSV.
Set the width of the text the maximum length you want it to be. The -RM in the layer name will force each row to resize if the text is longer then the text placeholder in the CSV.
This will work, but the text may be squished too much if it has to resize by too much.
The other alternative, which may be easier (probably what I would actually do)…….
Set it up to run without the bottom text. Then in the SPA settings use the “Pause On Finished Image” checkbox. This will build each composite and then stop for you to do any editing. Then paste in your text as you want it. When you are dome, press continue. It will then save the image, build the next image and pause again. The pause step is really good for jobs like this. It will still build much quicker than you can by yourself and keep the workflow going. If you have you list of copy/paste text then you could probably do them in 15 or 20 seconds each. So it isn’t “walk away” batching but still very fast.