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From: hall@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Marty Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop
Subject: Re: Quick- FRAME question
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.163745.3996@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 91 16:37:45 GMT
References: <1991Mar13.161448.12935@citib.com>
Reply-To: hall@aplcen (Marty Hall)
Organization: AAI Corp AI Lab, JHU P/T CS Faculty
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In article <1991Mar13.161448.12935@citib.com> mwooh@citib.com writes:
>I am just learning FrameMaker and had a quick question:
>When you pull down a menu such as File, you get a list of menu choices on the 
>left and on the right there are symbols such as:
>
>			Generate...         !fg
>
>What do those symbols on the right (!fg) mean?

The symbols on the right are the keyboard (ie non-menu) equivalents. The "!"
refers to ESCAPE, so "ESCAPE f g" does the same as choosing that menu item.

This may also clear up some confusion from a recent poster who complained that
you are *forced* to wade through menus in FrameMaker. On the contrary, that is
what I like about FM; a relatively intuitive menu system for learning and
for infrequent commands, but keyboard equivalents for *everything*. You can
also define keyboard macros that can combine long series of commands into a
single keystroke.

I have no connection with Frame except as a satisfied user.

					- Marty Hall
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