Keyboard Shortcut Reference/it

Gale: Not ready for proofreading
 * I found "Special commands with no keyboard shortcut" just wasn't working for me. They are too hidden and it's not really understandable why these are separated when they fall into the functional groupings plan we have. So I moved them into functional groupings. Also moved the "move track focus" shortcuts from the Edit commands to Tracks commands.
 * Saying "Play" and "Stop" are single commands with a pre-assigned shortcut is incorrect, so I don't think we can. As menu items with no pre-assigned shortcut, they should not be mentioned if we stick to our previous idea. We could make an exception for these two, and have a simple statement without description of the other menu items which can have a shortcut assigned (current idea here). Or since we now have user-assigned items (as I think is important for the "special commands with no shortcut"), just go the whole hog and list the unassigned ones that are in the menus. Complete the descriptions for these sometime, but not necessarily for 2.0. It does have the advantage if we do allocate more of these in future, we don't have to do the work again.

Bill: -- Ed 8 December 2009 I note that we are not consistent about the way we list shortcuts sometimes it is ALT + CTRL + SHIFT, other times it would be CTRL + ALT + SHIFT or other combinations. I would like to propose that in the manual and the program both we settle on a fixed order and stick with it. The order that I would prefer would be CTRL + ALT + SHIFT + KEY.
 * I'm fine with this arrangement. Two points:
 * Although  is not listed in the Transport menu as a shortcut for Play and Stop (nor is it listed in the Keyboard Preferences), it does work and is mentioned elsewhere. It might be worth making a note of that in the Transport section.
 * Gale: The single commands are listed in the Transport list, but I think you are wanting to say they default to SPACE anyway on account of the Play/Stop?
 * Bill: What's there now is fine with me.
 * The only choice remaining to be made seems to be whether the unassigned menu shortcuts are listed before the table (as in the Transport section) or in the last row of the table (as elsewhere, and as described in the intro div). I have no preference either way.
 * Gale: Maybe at the bottom is better. Are you still opposed to listing all of those in separate rows instead of grouped in one row? The length of some of the tables is the only thing that stops me doing it.
 * Bill: Exactly. This page is very long as it is.
 * For shorter tables, especially for the odd situation in Transport where we have to have an explicit row for the individual Play and Stop, it would be a perfect solution.
 * Bill: Yes, I think we can treat the Transport Menu as a special case.
 * Plus if people do use this page as a one-stop place for quick text about what any shortcut-assignable command does, we seem to be devaluing that idea by not listing the menu items without a pre-defined shortcut. Maybe we could trim the quick text in places to make the tables a bit more manageable?
 * Bill: My view is that this is the "Keyboard Shortcut Reference". If a menu command does not have a default shortcut, we don't list it separately (except for a few special cases). I think we do need to list the commands that are not associated with a menu item, otherwise people won't even know they exist. 

This page provides a list of all keyboard shortcuts that can be used in Audacity, arranged in similar functional groupings used by the Menu Bar and Toolbars.
 * Some shortcuts do not have an equivalent menu item. In the tables below, these shortcuts will not have a link to a menu item. For shortcuts associated with a menu item, click on the Action name for a full description of the command.
 * Many menu and other commands do not have a pre-defined shortcut, but you can assign a shortcut to them in Keyboard Preferences. For convenience, these are listed at the end of the tables below (it isn't possible yet to assign shortcuts to individual effects in the Generate, Effect and Analyze menus). Similarly, you can change the pre-defined shortcut for any item in Keyboard Preferences.

Certain features on this page will not be available until 1.3.13 Beta is released.

Mac OS X users: CTRL = COMMAND; ALT = OPTION. So, for example, CTRL + ALT + K = COMMAND + OPTION + K

Transport commands
When Bug 133 is fixed, remove "You need to then use the Play-at-speed shortcut above to restart playback at the new speed." from the "Increase/decrease playback speed" shortcuts.