Constraining blog post text

Hi there !
I'm looking for some help in taming my blog post entries when displayed in a rectangle on a Muse generated page. I have successfully created the blog in BC and used the {module_blogpostlist,id,numentries} tag to display the most recent blog post on the page in question. Problem is that I want to constrain the amount of text displayed so that it does not exceed the fixed rectangle into which the HTML object is placed.
There is a demo video on Adobekb.com for Monkeybar in which a similar effect is used, and the blog post is limited and terminated with ellipsis which are a link to the whole post on the blog. This is exactly what I'd like to do, but can't figure out from the documentation or the sample files how to do it.
Any suggestions ??
Thanks,
Robert

Follow up for anyone else interested in a solution to this. I've found some workarounds which involve a CSS solution. I found some interesting info here:
http://www.mobify.com/dev/multiline-ellipsis-in-pure-css
This involves editing the master style sheet and blog template for {tag_blogpostlist}, and I've sort of got it working in limited form but not completely. If I get any better information I'll post it. Stay tuned....

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