In AutoHotKey scripts, is there a way to write modifiers in full

Question

Background

I have quite a few AutoHotKey scripts that are triggered by various combinations of Shift, Control, Alt and some other key on the main keyboard.

For example, this (which I use to enter a DokuWiki level-1 heading into a text-editor):

+!1::
    Send, ======  ======
    Send, {Left}{Left}{Left}{Left}{Left}{Left}{Left}
Return

The problem I have is that I only use some of them rarely, and I find it really hard to easily remember what the abbreviations ^, ;, + and # mean.

(I am aware of this table of Modifier key abbrevations - I just don't use them often enough to memorise them, and adding comments at the top of my scripts hasn't helped enough either.)

Hoped-for improvement

Having seen examples like this one, I would like to change the script above to something like this, whose keyboard short-cut is immediately readable:

Shift & Alt & 1:: ; gives "invalid hotkey" error
    Send, ======  ======
    Send, {Left}{Left}{Left}{Left}{Left}{Left}{Left}
Return

However, the above gives me error, saying it is an "invalid hotkey". (I am using AutoHotKey 1.0.48.05)

I've tried various combinations, already, to no avail:

Shift & Alt & 1:: ; => invalid hotkey
Shift & Alt & {1}:: ; => invalid hotkey
Shift&Alt&1:: ; => does not exist in the current keyboard layout
Shift^Alt^1:: ; => does not exist in the current keyboard layout

Is there a way to correct the above list of keys, to be both readable and working, please?

Edit: further experiments

Having worked through the table of modified symbols to define hotkeys, I've tried various additional combinations of named symbols, to try and understand what's allowed: none of them give the desired effect:

These are all OK (showing that named keys cam be used here - but they are not the hotkey I'm after):

Alt & 1::
Ctrl & 1::
Shift & 1::
LShift & 1::

These all give "invalid hotkey"

+ & Ctrl & 1::
+Ctrl & 1::
{~Shift} & 1::
{~Shift} & {~Alt} & 1::
~Shift & ~Alt & 1::
LShift & LAlt & 1::
LAlt & LShift & 1::
Shift & Alt & 1::
Alt & Shift & 1::
Ctrl & Alt & 1::
Shift & Alt & 1::
Shift & Alt & {1}::
1 & Shift & Alt::

And these all give "does not exist in the current keyboard layout"

Shift&Alt&1::
Shift^Alt^1::
Alt&1::

Answer 1

Yeah, I guess it stinks that those arbitrary symbols are used. A self documenting macro is probably your best bet.

There has been talk in the AHK forums about an HTML documentor. I'll see if I can dig up those posts also.