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This is a system I use when showing friends how to use menus. I would like to
propose it for technical manuals. I don't think I've seen it used anywhere,
but it works really nicely.
If I want a user to select File, then Open, then SOME.FIL, I represent it
this way:
Select File:Open:SOME.FIL
It's concise, and great when the menu structure is deep or you need to
combine several operations into one statement, like here:
