Plasma Noodles

I'm just starting out with Publisher, and I was very interested in the Data Merge feature. For the most part it works well, but I think there's room for improvement with numbered/bulleted multi-line text. I tried to make it work 3 ways, with mixed results: JSON field as array of strings (2nd level): I used a JSON file as a source in the following format: [{ "field1": "Field Value", "field2": ["item 1", "item2"] }] Here, field 1 is recognized, field 2 isn't, so it doesn't work for me. Excel file with line breaks in the cell. The fields were recognized, but there was no text in the field. Didn't work either. JSON field with list of fields separated by newline character(\n). I used a JSON file with the following format: [{ "field1": "Field Value", "field2": ["item 1\nitem2"] }] Here, both fields get recognized. This option is the closest I got to what I need, but I think it would be cumbersome to have to replace all line breaks with the \n character. Still, numbering/bullets don't work as expected (meaning, the numbers/bullets don't appear on each new line/item, only on the first line) because the "list" is one field. Of course, I could add the numbers/bullets myself, but I can't do any formatting. I think it would be fantastic if #1 worked. That is, that arrays of strings are recognized as one field with multiple items so that I can apply bullets/numbering and customize it on the master page, rather than at the data source.