[Typo3-shop] Crop text of the products in list view

[Jernej Zorec]

Hi !

What is the easieast way to crop text to 200 chars when more products 
are shown in the LIST mode ?

Example:
index.php?id=123	<-- this is the page with more products shown
				at the same time, so I want to crop
				text (note) of each product
				to first 200 chars

index.php?id=123&tt_products=44
			<-- here only one product is shown and I want
				to have full text

Note that this is both on the same page and with the same plugin in
LIST mode. I'm using version 1.2.7 of the tt_products.

Can I even do that in an old version like that ? That would be great.
It would be great and probatly the easiest way to do that in typoscript
template.
Note that I can't make changes to the source of tt_products, because 
this plugin is used by multiple webpages

If not, what version should I upgrade to, and what changes would it have 
to be done ?

Thanks for your reply.

Regards,
Jernej