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    <desc>Bookmark verses, organize them with colored tags, and import bookmarks from other applications.</desc>

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    <revision pkgversion="4.5.0" date="2026-08-10" status="draft"/>

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    <title type="text">Xiphos</title>

    <credit type="author" its:translate="no">
      <name>Andy Piper</name>
    </credit>
    <credit type="author" its:translate="no">
      <name>Pierre Benz</name>
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    <credit type="author" its:translate="no">
      <name>Dr Peter von Kaehne</name>
    </credit>
    <credit type="author" its:translate="no">
      <name>Karl Kleinpaste</name>
    </credit>
    <credit type="author" its:translate="no">
      <name>Matthew Talbert</name>
    </credit>

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  <title>Bookmarks and Tags</title>

  <p>Bookmarks let you mark individual verses for quick return later. Press
  <keyseq><key>Alt</key><key>B</key></keyseq>, or use the right-click context
  menu in the <gui>Bible Text Pane</gui>, to open the bookmark dialog on the
  current verse. Bookmarks are listed in the <gui>Sidebar</gui>, where they can
  be organized into folders.</p>

  <!-- TODO: confirm exact dialog/menu wording for tag folder colors against
  source (added by commits ff96e592 #1317, a9dd210f #1336, ecbb544d #1368). -->
  <section id="xiphos-bookmark-tag-colors">
    <title>Coloring Tag Folders</title>
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    <p>Bookmark folders (also called tag folders) can now be given a color.
    Right-click a folder in the bookmark list and choose a color for it. Every
    verse bookmarked into that folder is then highlighted in the chosen color
    directly in the <gui>Bible Text Pane</gui>, giving you an at-a-glance
    picture of how your tags are distributed through a passage, similar to
    highlighting a paper Bible with different colored pens for different
    themes.</p>
    <p>A verse that belongs to more than one colored tag folder, or that also
    carries a personal annotation, is resolved consistently so that only one
    color is shown; the bookmark dialog always shows you exactly which
    folder(s) a verse belongs to.</p>
  </section>

  <section id="xiphos-bookmark-crossref-popup">
    <title>Navigating Multi-Verse References</title>
    <p>Bookmarks and cross-references that point to more than one verse (for
    example, a reference spanning several verses, or several distinct
    references bundled together) can be navigated one at a time from a popup
    menu, without first sending the whole list to the sidebar's verse list.
    Partial verse references are also resolved correctly when building this
    popup, instead of only whole-verse or whole-chapter references.</p>
  </section>

  <!-- TODO: confirm exact menu path for AndBible import against source
  (added by commit 7bc9f2ee/7a13856d area's neighbor 7b1994c8... actually see
  b807de15/7b4ee98d, #1351). Likely under a bookmark-list context menu or
  File > Import; verify before publishing. -->
  <section id="xiphos-bookmark-andbible-import">
    <title>Importing Bookmarks From AndBible</title>
    <p>If you also use <app>AndBible</app> (a Sword-compatible Bible app for
    Android) and want to bring its bookmarks into <app>Xiphos</app>, use the
    bookmark import function to read an AndBible bookmarks database file and
    convert it into <app>Xiphos</app> bookmarks. Locate the AndBible database
    file (copied from your Android device) when prompted, and the bookmarks it
    contains will be added to your existing <app>Xiphos</app> bookmarks.</p>
  </section>

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