The behavior for text eliding is that multiple lines are removed when a longer line above them are elided. I have attached an example screenshot of a multiline text field before and after eliding. It's a simple matrix, which is represented as a multi line string:

1.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
0.0000 1.0000 0.0000 0.0000
0.0000 0.0000 1.0000 0.0000
0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 1.0000

When this is truncated, it gets displayed as:

1.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0....

All of the lines below the first are removed. I have seen quite a few tickets that appear to reference this same behavior:

http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-2333
http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-238
http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-1564
http://qt.nokia.com/developer/task-tracker/index_html?method=entry&id=139334 (couldn't find the JIRA task for this)

Many of them state this was resolved in 4.3+, but I'm still getting this behavior in 4.4. It would be great if this bug could be rigorously verified as fixed and in which version this fix was made.