Re: feasibility of non-roman menu keymaps?

[Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir technion ac il>]

On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Pablo Saratxaga wrote:

> xforms, used by LyX, has that feature.
> It uses a syntax like "abcd|x#a#", before the first '#' there is the
> special key to use on keyboard, and before the second '#' the letter
> to be underlined (or the opposite, I don't remember).
>
> Such a thing is useful also for latin alphabet languages, in some cases
> where the logical letter to underline is accented; for exemple in French
> the entry for "_Edit" should be "_?diter" (_<Eacute>diter), however, it
> would be nice to be able to use Alt-E for it.
> Something like "_?diter|e#" would be very nice.

IIRC, in this case no "e" is underlined, and the user can't easily guess
that this is the accelerator.

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