accel

accel — A graphical user interface (GUI) keyboard shortcut.

Synopsis

accel ::=

Zero or more of:
- text
- replaceable
- Graphic inlines
  - inlinemediaobject
- Indexing inlines
  - indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange)
  - indexterm (db.indexterm.singular)
  - indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange)
- Linking inlines
- Ubiquitous inlines
  - abbrev
  - acronym
  - alt
  - anchor
  - annotation
  - biblioref
  - coref
  - date
  - emphasis (db._emphasis)
  - firstterm (db._firstterm)
  - footnote
  - footnoteref
  - foreignphrase (db._foreignphrase)
  - glossterm (db._glossterm)
  - indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange)
  - indexterm (db.indexterm.singular)
  - indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange)
  - inlinemediaobject
  - link
  - olink
  - phrase (db._phrase)
  - quote (db._quote)
  - remark
  - subscript
  - superscript
  - trademark
  - wordasword
  - xref

Attributes

Common linking attributes.

None.

Description

An accelerator is usually a letter used with a Meta key (such as Ctrl or Alt) to activate some element of a GUI without using the mouse to point and click at it.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline.

Attributes

Common linking attributes.

any attribute: Any attribute in any other explicit namespace

Parents

These elements contain accel: bridgehead, caption (db.html.caption), citation, citetitle, classsynopsisinfo, contrib, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, enumitemdescription, firstterm (db.firstterm), funcsynopsisinfo, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm (db.glossterm), guibutton, guiicon, guilabel, guimenu, guimenuitem, guisubmenu, link, literallayout, member, meta (db.meta.content), olink, orgdiv, para, phrase (db.phrase), primary, primaryie, programlisting, quote (db.quote), refdescriptor, refentrytitle, refname, refpurpose, remark, screen, secondary, secondaryie, see, seealso, seealsoie, seeie, seg, segtitle, simpara, subtitle, synopsis, synopsisinfo, td, term, termdef, tertiary, tertiaryie, th, title, titleabbrev, tocentry, userinput.

Children

The following elements occur in accel: text, abbrev, acronym, alt, anchor, annotation, biblioref, coref, date, emphasis (db._emphasis), firstterm (db._firstterm), footnote, footnoteref, foreignphrase (db._foreignphrase), glossterm (db._glossterm), indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject, link, olink, phrase (db._phrase), quote (db._quote), remark, replaceable, subscript, superscript, trademark, wordasword, xref.

Examples

 1 |<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
   |<title>Example accel</title>
   | 
   |<para os="windows">You can exit most Windows applications by selecting
 5 |<guimenuitem><accel>Q</accel>uit</guimenuitem> or
   |<guimenuitem>E<accel>x</accel>it</guimenuitem> from
   |the <guimenu><accel>F</accel>ile</guimenu> menu.
   |</para>
   | 
10 |</article>

You can exit most Windows applications by selecting Quit or Exit from the File menu.