Assign multi-line text value to variable

How do you assign a multi-line value to a text variable in Storyline 360. Pasting in more than one line in the ‘text’ variable only stores the first line.

i want the slide to load, then the variable to be available with the multiline value, so that javascript that executes on the slide load is able to read and use that value without user interaction.

Also, can you read the value of the current slide ‘notes’ (transcript) using variables/javascript?