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Google Docs Api does not work correctly for Table Cell data with multiple lines

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api: docs needs more info priority: p4 type: feature request
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Description

In Google Docs API version v1-rev20191010-1.30.3, there is an issue with accessing data from tables. The issue happens when the cells have new lines in them. For example

A
B

The API currently only returns a single paragraph element in the cell with text A and ignores the second line in the cell. However, the data is still available in the raw json for the document.

The above causes problem because I need to style each line in the cell, but because of this issue it's only applying styles to the first line when I iterate the elements.

As a workaround, I am using the raw JSON to get the indexes for the texts and then applying the styles, but this should be made available through the API too.

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