I am new at ios development and this is my problem thus far. I am able to dynamically calculate the height of a custom cell via the delegate \"heightForRowAtIndexPath\". S
There is a good tutorial that walks you through the process of determining the height that is required to fit your text and sizing the cell height appropriately.
the tutorial is available here: http://www.raddonline.com/blogs/geek-journal/iphone-sdk-resizing-a-uitableviewcell-to-hold-variable-amounts-of-text/
I have not attempted the methods in the tutorial myself, but it looks to be pretty thorough.
Hope this helps!