No, that's part of the problem, Abhilash.
I have a calendar-like presentation with 7 days across the page. Each day entry may have multiple tasks in a box - separated by line breaks in the report - but the relevance of the task entry drops off left to right. The box can and does grow as the number of tasks per entry increases. Each box is as wide as it can be.
What I'm trying to do is maximise the number of entries that can be shown on a page, and minimise the vertical space they're shown in. Truncating the tasks on the right would be fine, but I can't do this and keep the 'can grow' property. I could truncate the task length to a fixed no. of characters but this would look fairly ugly as the character widths vary.
Andrew