[TYPO3] How to (sensibly) crop entire breadcrumb menu

[Paul Vetch]

Hi,

I have a breadcrumb menu on a website with fixed width.  Because the
site is pretty large (5 + levels deep) the breadcrumb nav occasionally
gets too long, even though I'm already cropping the individual page
titles quite a bit.  What I'd like to do is something along these lines:

Your path: Home > Section 1 > ... > Subsection > Current Page

- so that, if the menu is say 4 levels long or more, or maybe if the
total character count of the menu exceeds a set number, the middle path
entries just get written in as an ellipsis (...) or something similar.  

I suspect this will mean creating the menu in TS since I can't figure
out how to do this with a rootline HMENU, but if anyone could give me
any tips or has done something like this in TYPO3 it would be great to
have something to start from...

Cheers,

Paul