Hedley Finger wrote: > Keyboard shortcuts and menus are not mutually exclusive. Yes, you > can have both (fancy that). And a well-designed GUI will teach you > what the keyboard shortcuts are so that you can progress from novice > to intermediate to expert: File > Save (Ctrl-s), Edit > Copy > (Ctrl-c). It's sort of handy if the keyboard shortcuts are mnemonic > wherever possible. In FrameMaker you have Esc e c (meaning e=edit, > c=copy), etc. > If you are actually using Scribus (you write as if you perhaps are not) you will see that Scribus has menus, has keyboard shortcuts, has a toolbar with icons, so for many common operations there are at least 3 ways of activation. And you can turn keyboard shortcuts into whatever you feel is a better mnemonic.
There is also the very handy F12, followed by 4-digit Unicode to insert whatever character you might use frequently yet not be present on your keyboard. On a practical level, one can only remember so many shortcuts at a time, and sooner or later you run out of easy to remember mnemonics. Greg
