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See the Change Log in the web site for complete details.

Bugs Fixed in Version 10.4.1

  1. Popups don't work when Large is selected in the Button size preference.

What's new in Version 10.4

  1. Popup dialog improvements:
    1. Popup can now be dragged around via the title bar.
    2. Ability to show full screen (but not fully immersed):
      1. Toggle full screen button on the top right for Popup with long content. Enabled by default in the preferences Popups section.
      2. Option in the preferences Popups section to always use full screen for long content.
  2. Text-to-speech now supports the language (Details table, language field) set for non-Bible modules (Deluxe).
  3. Split windows (Deluxe) Sync option for Dictionaries in Preferences under Display settings useful for syncing Strong dictionaries.

Bugs Fixed in Version 10.4

  1. Including HGPD (or Bibles with Hebrew OT and Greek NT) in parallel in OT will make English translations right aligned too due to forced RTL.
  2. Arrange Long tap menu don't remember unchecked items.
  3. Copy (current verse via button or menu) in Bible view in Compare or Parallel causes a crash.
  4. Adhoc tags (Deluxe) with long text may pull the commentary, map and people links down the next line but the width of the tag is still full width making the rightmost overflow of the screen to the right requiring a horizontal scroll.

What's new in Version 10.3

  1. New Preferences:
    1. Show paragraph marker - shows pilcrow ¶ at the beginning of the verse in non-paragraph mode.
    2. Module selection autocomplete - for faster selection of a module in case of long list. Default to disabled.
  2. Popup of Bible in full chapter improvement: tapping the verse number will no longer close the popup.
  3. People selection dialog in case there are many people in a verse no longer closes automatically after selecting a person.
  4. Verse number will no longer be dangled at the end of the line in paragraph mode (Premium).

Bugs Fixed in Version 10.3

  1. Text-to-speech on Popup of Bible bug fixes:
    1. Full chapter skips content if there are map, people links.
    2. (Parallel) and (Copy) links are read though (Compare) is not. All should be ignored.
  2. Popup shows duplicate Compare, Parallel and Copy links for single verse when Compact Bible is set.
  3. Long tap text selection wrong verse number in popup menu in case of new paragraph.

What's new in Version 10.2

  1. Main window Copy (all text or page, current verse, verse range) improvements when WYSIWYG Editor is used:
    1. Copy will include both HTML and plain text versions for the Clipboard. MS Word and Chrome-based apps like GMail supports the HTML version, others just plain text but without the old MySword Wiki tags.
    2. Copy settings for Copy verse range with the following options:
      1. Place verse ref at the end
      2. Complete book name
      3. Verse per line
      4. Retain paragraph and poetry
      5. Make links work outside MySword
      6. Link format
      7. Number format
  2. Added Copy verse and verse range to Long tap menu. If you can't see the new items at the bottom of the long tap menu, please go back to Preferences and enable the new menu items.
  3. Designate a Journal entry as Scratch pad for Kitkat or higher where you can send text content to from:
    1. Selection in any module type view like Bible, Book, Dictionary, Commentary, Journal and Notes.
    2. Bible verse range with text

    The new Scratch pad icon/button is found near the far right of the bottom bar for non-Compact mode. For Compact mode, you will need to customize the bottom buttons to include it. Long tap the icon for settings with the following options:

    1. Select Journal/Topic as scratch pad
    2. Option to always select scratch pad journal
    3. Option to send link only for non-Bible and non-selection
    4. Link format for non-Bible links
    5. Reset link format to default
  4. Popup and Search/Editor Preview improvement: support for external http/https links.
  5. WYSIWYG Editor improvements (Premium): Insert Bible link and Search Bible's Paste verse type of Verse range with text now has an option to use HTML using copy settings. The Deluxe Split for tablet's Copy verse range (long tap) also have that option.

Bugs Fixed in Version 10.2

  1. XRef and Merged Bible references popup's RTL verse link don't work.

What's new in Version 10.1

  1. Editor Paste Special using long tap on the Paste button for HTML/formatted content with the following options:
    1. Paste as is - similar to long tap on the Editor, tap the caret/insert handle to show menu, then tap Paste.
    2. Adapt font sizes - make all hard-coded font sizes, paddings, margins, line height and text indents (px and pt) into proportional to MySword's Text size so it can be zoomed.
    3. Adapt colors - make all text and background colors adapt to MySword Color Theme so it will adapt to different Themes like light or dark ones.
    4. No colors - remove all text and backtround colors.
    5. No styles - remove all CSS styles (formatting).
    6. Text size - default to 100 (%) used by Adapt font sizes option.
    7. Preview - preview before pasting.
  2. People relationship diagram improvement: the Show people link preference now shows the following options:
    1. Hide
    2. All - the old behavior of showing for all verses
    3. Humans only - don't show the link for God as it's already obvious and will clutter the end of verses, especially in Psalms (note that the diagram will still include God)
    4. No single nodes - exclude also persons without named direct ancestor or child like Paul
  3. Replacement of Choose folder using ES File Explorer for Lollipop and higher.

Bugs Fixed in Version 10.1

  1. Embedded translators' notes is not working on notes on titles, e.g. Psa 34:1 BSB.
  2. Split windows (Deluxe) of 3 or more panes with 2 or more non-bible panes of similar type (e.g. commentary or dictionary) but different content will have a mixed up title when Tags are updated in the Bible pane.
  3. Insert File Link in Editor (Deluxe) uses the Internal Storage file in case of same path name as External Storage.

What's new in Version 10.0

  1. People relationship (ancestor/descendant) diagram for Kitkat and higher:
    1. Switch between Regular left to right tree view or Radial view.
    2. Expand/collapse ancestor and descendant line.
    3. Show information about a person including verses he/she is found.

    Enable the feature in Preferences->Other Look and Feel (or just search for people).

  2. Navigation bar (bottom for those without hardware buttons) now has the same background color as the Status bar above in Material Theme.
  3. Highlight screen improvement: added Search in the Menu to search the Bible for occurrences of the highlight.
  4. New display preference: Compact view page scroller (show or hide).
  5. New Bible view preference (Deluxe): Hide annotations. Hides notes, tags, custom cross-references, Bible pictures, embedded Bible commentary, commentary links, map links and people links (per split window).

Bugs Fixed in Version 10.0

  1. Red circle location markers in Maps are no longer showing in Chrome/WebView 72.0.3226.96 update.
  2. Dark Holographic Theme for Android Pie shows a menu with black text over dark gray background:
    1. Full screen then tap alternate Menu (upper right).
    2. Overflow Menu (top right) for all screens.
  3. Select Journal entry could crash in Android Pie if the Id box is not focused.
  4. Search Highlight don't remember properly the highlight upon return from the main screen (it's usually one less in color position).
  5. Edit Cross References (Deluxe) crashes on Remove and there are no references.
  6. Format (Deluxe) crashes on very short verse with 10 or less characters (e.g. 1Th 5:17 Korean).
  7. Horizontal scrolling (Deluxe):
    1. Division has ugly blurring if with image background. If using prebuilt Color theme, just reselect it; otherwise, please edit the custom Color Theme, check then uncheck the Tile then save again.
    2. The horizontal scroll bar is thick in some devices like Samsung.
    3. Page navigation does not go to the end in some devices though swiping still works.

What's new in Version 9.5

  1. Content scroll bar improvements:
    1. New Display Preference: Always show scroll bars.
    2. Scroll bar is now visible in white background using Dark Theme or black background in Light Theme.
    3. The scroll bar color can be customized in CSS Editor: .scrollbar{color:rgba(192,0,0,0.5);} Note that this is not available in the Visual Editor but it can be previewed there.
  2. Search Bible Verse list menu improvements: added Copy and Copy with text to copy the result to Clipboard without going to Verse List Manager and affecting the current Verse List group. The formatting is compatible or similar to Verse List Manager's.
  3. New Popup Preference: Show Copy in Bibles. Bible popups will have a Copy link besides the Commentary and Compare/Parallel links.
  4. Preview (Search, Editor and others) improvement: added Find in page in the menu.
  5. Support for expand dictionary reference for dictionary module like OGNTd.
  6. Margin and padding are removed in embedded commentary for better display (e.g. Psa 119:41, 57, 81, 137 Poole).
  7. Support for embedded RX, FR, FI, Strong tags inside RF tags in Bible modules.
  8. About Module improvements: support for Bible links, display filename.

Bugs Fixed in Version 9.5

  1. Export page crash in case the page is too large like ISBE entry for Jesus Christ or OGNTla Rom 1.
  2. .mybible-shm and .mybible-wal temporary files are not deleted in newer versions of Android.
  3. The HLSA controls of the Visual Theme Editor (Premium) are too compacted in Material Theme.
  4. About Module external links without http(s):// cause a crash.

What's new in Version 9.4

  1. Preferences improvement:
    1. Search/filter to easily find a preference.
    2. Removed the OK button in Search as it is redundant as Back is enough and it's confusing to the search function.

Bugs Fixed in Version 9.4

  1. Crash after download modules in a fresh install in Android Nougat 7.1.1.
  2. Long tap text popup menu no longer appears in Android Pie.
  3. file:// links in journals and notes no longer worked and go to Parallel view instead.
  4. Arrange Compare/Parallel/ Commentaries/Dictionaries named selection arrangement of non-existing module also affects first module and other non-existing modules.

What's new in Version 9.3

  1. Preview and View Clipboard in Bible Bookmark similar to Verse List.
  2. New Popups preference: Compare/Parallel link as icon. This is to make (Compare) and the new (Parallel) link as icons for a more compact view.
  3. Bible Compare now has a special link to Arrange Bibles for Compare (Free, Premium and Deluxe), and selectable list of named selections for Jellybean and higher (Deluxe).
  4. New preference Parallel in single column which is useful for smartphones where every translation is in a separate line similar to Compare (but unlike Compare which shows only one verse, the Parallel view shows one Chapter).
  5. Bible Parallel now has a special link to Arrange Bibles for Parallel (Free, Premium and Deluxe), and selectable list of named selections for Jellybean and higher (Deluxe).
  6. Arrange Compare, Parallel, Commentaries and Dictionaries now have named selection (Deluxe) similar to Map Locations and Search Selection:
    1. Manage (add/remove/save/retrieve) named selection of modules
    2. Filter the list
    3. Select all/none
  7. Multiple language support in TTS for Popups and non-Bible views (Deluxe). The non-Bible module should have a lang attribute for block tags like p, div, h#, li, td or inline span using 2 or 3 letter ISO language code supported by Android/Java Locale. Compare and Parallel popups already injects the language.
  8. Editor improvement: insert verse with text will now include lang attribute in case the Bible has a specified language so that the TTS will work better supporting multiple languages.

Bugs Fixed in Version 9.3

  1. Text-to-speech in some devices crashes due to IllegalArgumentException or NullPointerException.
  2. Text-to-speech for Bible Compare scrolling is off by one translation.
  3. + sign in the RF tags in Bible (translators' notes) is not displayed in the popup.
  4. MySword restarts in Oreo when the WebView is killed by the system to reclaim memory.

What's new in Version 9.2

  1. Text-to-speech improvements:
    1. New Repeat modes:
      1. Continuous - goes to the next book.
      2. Repeat verse range - repeats a specified number of verses. Deluxe version allows more than one verse.
    2. Support for multiple languages (if it's available in the Default TTS Engine) for Bible modules:
      • The language field of the Details table of the Bible file should be properly set though to the 3 letter ISO code of the language (See About module); or
      • Go to the Download modules so that the mysword_modules.xml file in the mysword/download folder will be created and used as a source of the language mapping; or
      • Update the newly created file tts-module-language-map.txt in the mysword/mydata folder to include mapping for unofficial Bible modules.
    3. Interlinear support for mixed English and Greek or Hebrew for non-parallel view. Hebrew was not tested as it's not yet available in Google TTS.
    4. Support for Parallel Bible view (Premium).
    5. Repeat count for repeat page and verse range (Deluxe).
  2. Option to show commentary compare link on Commentary view at the right of the heading.
    1. On Other look and feel preference, there is Show compare in Commentary.
    2. Commentary link text is the same as in Commentary link for the Bible view.
  3. Dictionary view's heading can now be tapped to see the word in other similar dictionaries for Kitkat and higher similar to popups.
  4. Added Compact mode checkbox in Preferences under Display settings for devices whose Menu/Gear button doesn't work.
  5. Search improvement in selections (Deluxe): management of selections (add/delete/save/retrieve) in case there are more than 2.

Bugs Fixed in Version 9.2

  1. Menu/Gear button not working in some devices.
  2. In Nougat or higher, Dark Holographic Theme, the Search history, Select verse Type selector on top and the module selector of the Editor in Split mode (Deluxe) are not easily readable.
  3. Summary (Deluxe) bugs:
    1. Commentary and map links are included.
    2. Summary sentences don't have the original accents/diacritics where as the Summary highlight have them.

Bugs Fixed in Version 9.1.2

  1. Compare, Parallel Arrangement, Compare Commentaries, Compare Dictionaries and Long tap popup menu in Preferences crash in Marshmallow and Nougat 7.0.
  2. Dark Material Theme in Marshmallow and higher has the green in Commentary/Dictionary indicator not easily readable.
  3. Dark Material Theme in Marshmallow and higher has a different color accent.
  4. Talk back: verse selector bible reference and Grid verse selector book are read using abbreviation so not friendly.

Bugs Fixed in Version 9.1.1

  1. Tapping Strong link and dictionary popup is not enabled or no popups had been shown yet: Processing failed with error: Attempt to invoke interface method 'java.util.Iterator java.util.List.iterator()' on a null object reference. Please retry.
  2. In Nougat or higher, Select path using ES File Explorer or tapping external links created by the Editor: ... file:///... exposed beyond app through Intent.getData().
  3. In Nougat or higher, Dark Holographic Theme has some combo box items in dark text against gray background and not easily readable (example Search parameters).
  4. In Nougat or higher, Material Theme, Compact mode in phones, the module abbreviation in the selector is tightly squeezed.
  5. In Nougat or higher, Editor's Insert File link (Deluxe) no longer works.

What's new in Version 9.1

  1. Map improvements:
    1. Modern map only option (no overlay of map from Map book module).
    2. More missing locations added (12 Tribes, Israel and Philistines).
    3. Location Information's Root can now be tapped.
    4. Location Information's Comments can now have Alternate coordinates which can be shown upon tapping (e.g Hosah in Jos 19:29, Bezer in Jos 20:8, Baalath beer in Jos 19:8).
    5. (Deluxe) Manage (add/remove/save/retrieve) locations with add locations in verse range (use Location icon below Zoom +/- in upper left)
    6. (Deluxe) Open in Google Maps a location in popup
  2. Notes icon in Bible view can now be styled using CSS (img inside A tag is now dropped).
  3. Better paragraph mode support (Premium) for Bible verse range Popup and Harmony reference expansion of a short Bible verse range that may not contain paragraph nor poetry tags even though the Bible had them elsewhere.
  4. Export (Premium) improvement: module links like Bible refs can now be tapped and MySword Bible can be selected to open it.

Bugs Fixed in Version 9.1

  1. The Map link icon and the new Commentary link show as long blanks in Kitkat or lower, or Lollipop to Nougat with very old Android System WebView.
  2. Embedded commentary with link to the same commentary does not properly work.
  3. Opening of Map in freshly installed MySword where no picture is yet displayed in Books could display the error: Map file not saved into storage successfully.
  4. About Module does not show in case there is only one Bible.
  5. Commentary link and Dictionary Compare popup's View more does not automatically close the list if Commentary/Dictionary link is not popup.
  6. Editor's Insert link (or paste via search, mini bible viewer or copy from right preview pane) with text (range or not) that use Bible with abbreviation containing + do work (e.g. Byz2005+, Tanakh+)

Bugs Fixed in Version 9.0.1

  1. Embedded Bible Commentary does not revert to None but to Personal Notes in the Preferences.

What's new in Version 9.0

  1. Bible pictures anchored to a verse using Bible picture commentaries (please download Bible Picture under Commentary; the pictures are © Sweet Publishing (www.sweetpublishing.com), available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License (3.0)):
    1. Size can be adjusted, even iconized and tapping shows the picture
    2. The position can be left or right
    3. New Bible view preference to show/hide pictures
  2. Bible Maps using MySword Maps module with embedded geo-locations
    1. Currently, the updated Rand McNally (R.M.) Atlas and the new David Rumsey Historical Map Collection can be used. (Please download under Graphic)
    2. The map modules has a special Bible Map link to show the map with important locations in markers.
    3. A verse with a location will show a Map link (Location icon), tapping it will show the map immediately or a selection of map options with score/points at the end (the higher, the more locations included and the narrower the width).
    4. The Map uses the MySword Map module picture overlaid on Modern terrain map which will only show if the Internet is enabled. Sliding the bar on the top adjusts the opacity of the overlay. The +/- icon is used to zoom aside from pinch zoom. The modern map beneath can be selected using the upper-right button.
    5. Tapping the location marker shows location information.
  3. Embedded commentary on Bible (Deluxe version):
    1. Select a desired commentary or Personal notes or none
    2. Translators' notes can also be embedded
    3. Size can be adjusted
    4. The position can be left or right
    5. The number of characters to include can be set, any excess can be view via View more
    6. New Bible view preferences to show/hide embedded commentary and translators' notes

    Note: The Free and Premium version has a demo for ever first chapter of any book.

  4. New default commentary link text based on Material icon font. The old default SVG is now a second option.
  5. Text-to-speech shorter delay at the end of the verse in case the verse ends with space, comma, semi-colon, colon or hyphen.
  6. Verse selector Grid improvement on some phablets: better distribution of columns and rows.
  7. Added menu Share (Premium) in Bookmarks (Bible only) and Verse List.
  8. New long tap popup menu: Highlight word (Deluxe).

Bugs Fixed in Version 9.0

  1. Self links for titles with a space in books work in popup but not in main screen.
  2. Search Journal sets the current book topic to the current journal topic.
  3. KJVLite link in compare goes to KJV. Also true for those with abbreviation that ends with Lite or Full like CUV/S-Lite and CUV/T-Lite.
  4. Auto detect verse (Editor or popup) splits 1/2 Corinthians to use the word or as a separator even though there is no space when it is preceded by another verse, e.g. Pro 1:1, 1Cor 13:1.
  5. The Prev/Next bottom links in Mini Bible viewer of Editor don't work.

What's new in Version 8.4

  1. Arrange long tap popup menu items.
  2. New long tap popup menu: Quick highlight verse - use the previously selected highlight (including remove highlight).
  3. Long tap highlight verse other than the current will no longer scroll back to the current verse.
  4. Support for LG Split windows.
  5. Preferences menu item in Search for the results: Show highlights, Show tags, Collapse adhoc tags. Highlights included formats. Adhoc tags' notes can be collapsed so that very long notes will not clutter the results page.
  6. New Bible view preference: Collapse tags. This will collapse all tags in a verse into one Tag icon for the main Bible screen and the Editor Bible views.
  7. Reading Plan (Deluxe) generation improvement for Gospels in one year and Act - Rev in one year.

Bugs Fixed in Version 8.4

  1. $ in Bible text is rendered as Null inside formatting tags like Red, Italics, OT quotes and Translators' notes.
  2. Viewing images using external app may fail when MySword opened another app, was evicted from memory then was restarted.
  3. Reading Plan Own Pace crashes when adding Reading of single chapter book with chapter number 1, e.g. Oba 1 or 2Jn 1.

What's new in Version 8.3

  1. Highlight's Range now included Bible verse text similar to Verse List.
  2. MySword links now support list of verses like http://mysword.info/b?r=Rom_1:28,32;3:1-3,23-24 or http://mysword.info/b?r=Pro4.7,9.10,23_23
  3. New export menu action (Premium): Preview exported file. Printing (Deluxe) and saving to PDF will now be a lot easier.
  4. New option on the Export Page and Notes/Journal to file (Premium): Preview exported file. Printing (Deluxe) and saving to PDF will now be a lot easier.

Bugs Fixed in Version 8.3

  1. Editor's edit image attributes no longer work properly in recent WebView 58 and higher update.
  2. Parallel Bible view's go to Next/Prev chapter does not automatically scroll back to top.

What's new in Version 8.2

  1. Notes and Journal Editor improvement: Extract keywords save as tags in menu.
  2. Non-English language in Android Setting will now only suggest bibles in that language for the first time install in Download modules screen.
  3. New long tap menu action (Deluxe) in Bible, Commentary and Notes views: Search bible verse.
  4. Added Extract keywords (Deluxe) under Stats and other info menu.

Bugs Fixed in Version 8.2

  1. Arrange buttons OK/Cancel are not visible in phones in landscape mode.
  2. Search results bottom page navigation does not automatically scroll to the top.
  3. Search result Split Preview on the right for tablets (Deluxe) does not automatically scroll back to top when changing item in non-Bible search
  4. Search result item tap does not automatically refresh the Split Preview (Deluxe) in NET if the tapped word is an OT quote which is bold or italic.

What's new in Version 8.1

  1. Bookmark and Verse List improvement: rearrange by drag and drop in non-Default Theme (Honeycomb and higher).
  2. Added new Other Look and Feel Preference: With verse number spaces (uncheck for compact verse number but might be harder to tap for single digits). There is still a space between the number and the text after and if you want it removed, you can go to Color Theme CSS Editor and add .verno{margin-right:-0.3em}
  3. Added Copy with text in menu of Bookmarks and Verse list to include Bible text in copy (tab-delimited CSV format).
  4. Parallel Bible header now sticks on the top when scrolled for Jellybean or higher.
  5. Default Theme is no longer supported for Honeycomb and higher in the Preferences. Please use Holographic or Material Theme instead.
  6. New menu Copy no format (Premium) for Preview.
  7. Added new Premium Compare arrangement Preferences: Arrange Commentaries and Arrange Dictionaries.
  8. Tag (Deluxe) drag arrange improvement: can now drag beyond top and bottom edges.

Bugs Fixed in Version 8.1

  1. The Exit menu item is half displayed in Phones on Non-Compact Mode.
  2. Menu (or Gear button) is not working on Large Lollipop and higher tablets using Default Theme and non-Compact Mode.
  3. Format Commentary (Deluxe) does not work on verse range if the current verse is not the same as the starting verse (e.g. MHWBC Mat 4:1-12 and current verse is 4).
  4. Horizontal Scrolling (Deluxe) load of a verse on the next page sometimes does not scroll to that verse.
  5. Tag (Deluxe) bugs:
    1. Edit tag does not reflect on the list but saved and reflected in Bible view.
    2. Filter is not working on Used category.
  6. Popup Select in Split windows (Deluxe) does not automatically change the module type top bar unless content is tapped.

Bugs Fixed in Version 8.0.1

MySword 8.0.1 is just a bugfix and there are no new features added.

  1. Some download module problems in Honeycomb and higher.

What's new in Version 8.0

  1. Google Play tablet support compliance. For tablets without physical home/back buttons in Non-Compact mode, the virtual menu at the bottom right is now gone but a new one is displayed at the upper right. This is an alternate to the (Blue) Gear button at the bottom and can be hidden in Preferences->Display settings (can also be shown in phones, though it will cramp the upper buttons area).
  2. New Display setting: Scroll auto select verse. Scrolling that causes the current verse to be out of view will automatically select a visible verse adding to navigation history and syncing also other views in case of split view.
  3. Support for special commentary link/href of the form of 'c-* verse' or 'c-= verse' for Kitkat and higher for module creators:
    1. 'c-* verse' will show a list of commentaries that has entry for the verse, a popup showing the commentary entry will appear when a commentary is selected. In case there is only one commentary where it is found, the list will no longer show.
    2. 'c-= verse' will show a list of commentaries with plain text content (first 500 characters) for the verse, a popup showing the full commentary entry will appear when a commentary abbreviation is tapped.
    3. At the top of the list of commentaries, there is Compare which shows the first 500 characters of each commentary.
    4. The Compare max length default of 500 can be changed in Preferences->Other Look and Feel.
  4. Option to show commentary link on Bible verse which shows a list of commentaries for the verse:
    1. On Other look and feel preference, there is Show commentary link to add a link at the end of every verse. Also added it near the end of Bible Preferences.
    2. Commentary link text can be selected from a list of symbols and emojis or a Custom text can be entered.
    3. At the top of the list of commentaries, there is Compare which shows the first 500 characters of each commentary.
    4. Added Commentary link on Bible verse popup as well as the Merged XRefs and Bible references.
  5. Long-tap verse popup menu now included Commentaries for the verse which list all commentaries with entries and a Compare option at the top of the list.
  6. Better support for Morphology dictionaries:
    1. It is now possible to select a different Morphology dictionary other than the default RMAC (in Preferences). For module creators, add a field to Details table named Morphology and set the value to 1.
    2. Morphology links with codes not found in the selected Morphology dictionary will be automatically looked up on other morphology dictionaries so that different formatting or codes like in BIB can use its internal dictionary instead of the RMAC.
  7. Bibles with many verse rules now load a little bit faster (e.g. BHSE).
  8. Editor improvements:
    1. Support for abbreviation with spaces in dictionary, commentary and book links.
    2. Support for icons subfolders in Insert Icon (Deluxe).
  9. Highlighting/Formatting for non-Bible views (Deluxe):
    1. Select any text range (even partial words) and apply Bold, Italic, Underline, Color, Highlight and Box similar to Bible's Format feature.
    2. Insert after a highlighted text an Adhoc notes similar to Bible's Tag text or Adhoc notes.
    3. Insert after a highlighted text an icon similar to Bible's Tag icons.
    4. Edit the HTML content of the selected text (the whole encompassing HTML element's content).
    5. Enable editing directly of content for direct annotation.
    6. Search also included a new search type: Format

    Note that the edited content is not directly saved to overwrite the original content but only the difference with the original content (diff patch) is saved in format file. If there is a significant change in the original content (updated module), some diff patches may not work because of missing anchor context.

  10. Reading Plan Own Pace (Deluxe) improvements:
    1. Picking up created journals for a verse range read is now accurate to the verse number (before only up to the chapter number).
    2. Adding a verse reading now gives a warning when the verse from or to is invalid.
  11. Long tap lookup dictionaries (Deluxe) now included Compare which shows the first 500 characters of each dictionary. The Compare max length default of 500 can be changed in Preferences->Other Look and Feel.

Bugs Fixed in Version 8.0

  1. Nougat Standard Verse Selector bugs:
    1. Selecting NT in Range then selecting a book causes a crash.
    2. Selecting a Jump book then selecting another book sometimes retains the highlight on the previous book.
  2. Error loading bible chapter with a verse containing empty Translators notes: <RF><Rf>; e.g. version 2.3.1 or lower of ASV.
  3. Book/Journal links to itself does not work in popup if the active book/journal is different (e.g. a book link is added to a journal entry).
  4. When Horizontal scrolling (Deluxe) is enabled and in Parallel view, the Scroll Up/Down buttons don't work.
  5. Reading Plan (Deluxe) crashes when checking Rev 22.

What's new in Version 7.4

  1. Search Highlight improvement: added option for All which also shows the highlight on verse references.
  2. Text-to-speech (TTS) improvements:
    1. Better support for TS2009's Hebrew and for other modules as well: This will prevent Hebrew words and other non-English words from being skipped by TTS. A word map file named tts-wordmap.txt is created on the mydata folder. It is initially configured for TS2009 and the associated dictionary with 2 Hebrew word entries mapping to English equivalents, and two quotes used in Hebrew names transliterate to English. Please see the file on how to extend it and use for other modules as well.
    2. Speeds greater than 1 now have proportionate faster pause between verses.
  3. Popup improvements:
    1. Dictionary popups now has a heading that can be tapped to see the word in other similar dictionaries for Kitkat and higher. This is useful for example in Strong's popup and you want also to see it in AHLB without going back to the Main view. For Strong's, the equivalent Hebrew/Greek word or phrase or break down of words in the phrase are also looked up so that Hebrew/Greek dictionaries are also used.
    2. Non-range verses in Merged Bible references now have Compare links (also in Verse List preview).
    3. Auto-detect verses now included the following book abbreviations: Gn, Lv, Nm, Dt, Mr, Jo, Rv.
  4. New preference: Compact buttons opacity. You can now adjust the opacity (default 70%) of the compact mode buttons and page scrollers. Please see the Display settings section.
  5. Support for special dictionary link/href of the form of 'd-*word' or 'd-=word' for Kitkat and higher for module creators:
    1. 'd-*word' will show a list of non-Strong dictionaries where the word or nearest it is found, a popup showing the dictionary entry will appear when a dictionary is selected.
    2. 'd-=word' will only show Strong's in case the dictionary it is used is Strong, all otherwise.
    3. 'd-=word1%09word2%09word3' will lookup the tab delimited words beginning with the leftmost and using exact or no accent (if available) match.
    4. 'd-=Strong' will lookup not only Strong but also Hebrew/Greek dictionaries. Actually all dictionaries will be looked up except those whose abbreviations are in the active settings.mybible tabletsettings table entry for strong.lookup.exclude.list (default to all English/Bible dictionaries).
    5. In case there is only one dictionary where it is found, the list will no longer show.
  6. Better no accent dictionary word (if dictionary has it) support: switching between 2 dictionaries with different accent but same no accent is now possible.
  7. Editor improvements:
    1. Popup notes Full editor now supports images just like the Tag notes editor.
    2. Added Find in Page in Mini Bible viewer (Premium).
    3. Detect verses now included the following book abbreviations: Gn, Lv, Nm, Dt, Mr, Jo, Rv.
  8. File export (Premium) improvement: images under images and icons external folder are now properly exported.
  9. Support for Text-to-speech (TTS) for popups (Deluxe). The play/stop button is on the lower right. You can disable (hide the button) by going to Menu->Preferences->Popups then uncheck Text-to-speech.
  10. Support for dictionary lookup (Deluxe) on text selection for Kitkat and higher for popups, Search/Editor preview, Editor Mini Bible viewer, and Search/Editor split panes on the right. Note that the Display setting/preference Long tap popup menu should be checked.
  11. Horizontal scrolling (Deluxe) new preference: Repeat background into columns. When the number of columns is 2 or more and a background image is set in the Color Theme, you can check this setting so that the image will be duplicated per column. Please see the Display settings section.
  12. Dictionary lookup improvements (Deluxe):
    1. Dictionary lookup in... now properly supports no accent if the dictionary has the special field.
    2. Long tap Dictionary button for lookup new option: List dictionaries instead of using Main/Secondary. This is useful for Jellybean or lower as the popup menu is not supported.
    3. Dictionary lookup in... list will not auto close in case Dictionary as popup is checked.

Bugs Fixed in Version 7.4

  1. The Bible verse rule will fail if it is a replacement of empty string.
  2. Backup/Restore does not include verse list, reading plan, synonyms and other custom settings files.
  3. Insert book link in Editor creates an invalid link without book if the current book is different.
  4. Compare link is not working in Mini Bible viewer (Premium) of the Editor.
  5. Reading Plan (Deluxe) bug fixes:
    1. Multiple readings are always ordered by Bible books and not by original tracks like in M’Cheyne (e.g. day 1 should be Gen 1, Mat 1, Ezr 1 and Act 1; Mat and Ezr should not be reversed).
    2. M’Cheyne Aug 4 to Dec 31 should have Psalms first before Luke/John.

Bugs Fixed in Version 7.3.1

MySword 7.3.1 is just a bugfix and there are no new features added.

  1. Popups do not work properly on Large Button size setting.
    1. An error message is displayed regarding setVisibility or null.
    2. Some popups like Extract verses, Compare via long tap menu, Search results and Editor previews crash MySword.

What's new in Version 7.3

  1. Search improvements for encrypted modules:
    1. For English modules, a use FTS message no longer pops up as it is already made the default.
    2. For non-English modules like ABP and HiSB, the No accent (diacritics) index is automatically selected if available and no use FTS message is displayed.
    3. Create or use FTS message now also includes No accent (diacritics) in the suggestion.
  2. Grid Verse Selector improvement for tablets: chapter and verse now initially scrolls to the current making them visible in case of long list like Psa 78 and 119.
  3. Bible compare improvement: the notes icon (if any) is now linked to the notes.
  4. WYSIWYG Editor copy/insert verse improvements: bold, italic and words of Jesus format are now retained.
  5. Lemma lookup:
    1. Support for Lemma lookup for Bibles with Morphology and parsing info like Byz2005++, GRV, GRVx, TR and TRa:
      1. The lemma link is placed besides the Morphology key
      2. The Greek and Hebrew Lemma dictionaries for lookup can be set on the Preferences. The default for Greek is either LSJ or MLSJ if present. Currently, there is no official Hebrew dictionary that can be used for Lemma lookup yet except SEC of BHSE (which is just based on BDB/Thayer/Strong).
      3. The dictionary lookup is no accent if the dictionary supports it like the LSJ and MLSJ.
    2. Lemma lookup can also be used for Strong's dictionaries: The Original line with Hebrew and Greek words afterwards will have individual word links in case the Lemma dictionaries are selected (multiple words lookup will not do). This is useful for KJV and those with Strong's but no Morphology Lemma entries so you can directly link to other dictionaries like LSJ or MLSJ.
  6. Editor's Mini Bible Viewer (Premium) improvements:
    1. Modern theme is now supported.
    2. Added Copy verse button before the Close button to copy the currently selected verse into the Editor.
    3. In WYSIWYG, taping a Bible link then opening the Mini Bible Viewer will automatically go to that verse and translation.
  7. Tag (Deluxe) improvements:
    1. Additional filter types (upper left selector) aside from All, Text and Icon, and changed behavior:
      1. Used - only those that are currently used (use count is not zero). This is useful for making the Tag screen load faster.
      2. External - icons in the external folder (named icons) only. Note only the icons on the root folder are listed.
      3. sub-folders inside the external folder. This is useful for grouping external icons. Please note that in case you manually move icons from the root to sub-folders for organization purposes, take care to update also manually the folder field of the tag records affected in tags.mybible file tags table using an SQLite Manager.
      4. All - note that this does not include the sub-folders for performance reasons.
      5. Text - no longer includes used external folder icons.
    2. Filter type and filter text/key are now saved in the settings database so that they are remembered in case of reboot or MySword is evicted by the Android OS from memory.
    3. Added Menu->Default placement so you can select other than Default.
    4. Delete tag used in verses is now possible but with confirmation code.

Bugs Fixed in Version 7.3

  1. List selection highlighting is not properly working in Android Nougat in Standard and Dialer, Editor's add image and the Deluxe Group Bookmark and Verse List.
  2. Search of Encrypted modules like ABP and HiSB always uses the FTS if present even if No accent (diacritics) is selected and index was present.
  3. Notes details crashes in case you are editing a verse of a book that is not available in the active Bible, e.g. editing Pro 1:1 using JMNT which is NT only.
  4. Horizontal Scrolling (Deluxe feature) is no longer working in Chrome WebView 46 and higher (Lollipop and higher) on Search results, right preview pane (tablet) as well as the non-tablet's Preview for search View more and Editor.
  5. Highlight Words (Deluxe feature) crashes when selecting a new highlight color.

What's new in Version 7.2

  1. Find in page for all views in the main screen via Menu useful for locating text within a page for non-Bible modules.
  2. WYSIWYG Editor improvement: popup link as a new type of hyperlink for popup text which also had an option to use a full WYSIWYG Editor. Formerly, this is only made possible via Custom Link and using prefix r for the link but embedding HTML things is complicated. The new popup link WYSIWYG Editor simplifies that.
  3. Embedded XRefs in Bible modules improvement, support for TheWord's other range formats:
    1. +Interval, e.g. , equivalent to which is already supported
    2. verse 0, e.g. , equivalent to (whole chapter)
  4. Edit Cross-References (Deluxe) improvement: Search for adding verse or range.
  5. Word Frequency Improvement (Deluxe) for Jellybean and higher: added option to show Bubble Chart or Word Cloud.

Bugs Fixed in Version 7.2

  1. Text-to-speech bugs:
    1. Stop is not working in Marshmallow and higher but causes to skip all remaining verses then continue to the next chapter.
    2. Play on Commentary, Dictionary and Book (Deluxe) without any module will cause a crash.
  2. Multiple verses (range) notes:
    1. Edit does not display the correct verse to but is always the same as verse from.
    2. Editing the verse to will incrementally add one verse, e.g. 10 becomes 11.
  3. Delete module bugs:
    1. Compare and Parallel is not refreshed so error loading is displayed for the deleted Bible.
    2. When any Bible is deleted, navigating back via history to a Parallel view will cause a crash.
    3. When the last in the list is deleted in Commentary or Dictionary, navigating back via history could cause a crash.

Bugs Fixed in Version 7.1.1

  1. Failed to initialize UI after InitializeUI Books - happens if Button size is set to Larger in non-Compact mode.

What's new in Version 7.1

  1. Personal Notes improvements:
    1. Optional title and tags can now be added and date/time created edited (similar to Journal entries).
    2. Notes for a range of verses is now possible by specifying Verse To different than From. The notes will be shown for all verses in the range similar to MHWBC (Matthew Henry) Commentary.
    3. It is now possible to have multiple notes on the same verse. The date/time and optional title is used as key in the selection of what to Edit/Delete. Notes on a verse are displayed sorted by Verse From then Date/time.
    4. It is possible to skip the Details entry (old behavior) when editing an existing note by unchecking Enter/Edit notes details or in the new Notes Preferences.
    5. Search now includes search (type) by Title and Tags.
    6. New Notes Preferences to enable/disable Multiple notes and Enter/Edit notes details. See the Preferences icon in the top bar to the left of Delete icon, or in Compact mode see the Navigation drawer.
  2. Android N support:
    1. Multi-window is supported only when Display Preference Orientation is set to Automatic and not Lanscape nor Portrait.
    2. Switching between Multi-window and normal view will not restart any MySword screen.
    3. Switching between Multi-window and normal view will not cause a crash when a popup is shown as there is no longer a restart of the screen.
    4. Long tap popup menu will no longer go to the upper left.
  3. Detect verses improvement:
    1. New verse references separators: &, and, or (e.g. TS2009's translator's notes in Psa 147:19, Deu 12:8)
    2. Original separators are now remembered
  4. Merge adjacent Bible references improvement: &, and, or are now included as separators.
  5. Popup Translators' Notes improvement: detected Bible verses are now merged as well in case the Merge Bible references preference is set.
  6. Verse List Add verse from Compare mode will now add all translations shown in Compare.
  7. Yearly totals in Journals and Notes About Module for Jellybean and higher.
  8. The Full screen and Compact mode bottom right scrollers as well as the Compact mode bottom buttons are now more transparent in Dark themes.
  9. Module's Custom CSS support in Bible Compare and Search results (e.g. for BHSE modules in Dark themes).
  10. Journal Exact/No Accent and FTS Exact (Deluxe) indexes improvement: Accents, diacritics and punctuation marks are now also removed for title and tags similar to content. Please Reindex in Search screen (via Menu).
  11. Own Progress Tracking (Deluxe) summary improvement: added Next cycle column to Estimated days to finish for tracks that will be repeated many times (completed is greater than 100%).
  12. In Editor in Split view (Deluxe), after Search Bible and Paste type selection is displayed, there is a new item "Just set preview" which can be used not to paste the verse as link but just move the preview to that verse. This is not available for other Module types.
  13. Create blank XRef file (Deluxe) in Preferences->Cross-Reference. XRefs can then be added via Edit Cross References.
  14. Search for Diff between two Bibles in Parallel Diff mode (Deluxe). Please note that when you are in Parallel Diff mode view and went to Search, the Type and Keyword is not used as the Search switches to Diff Search. The search will be fast with the following Parallel Diff settings: Ignore case; Ignore accents/diacritics; Don't include titles, notes, XRefs, Strongs; and there is an Exact Index for search. Narrowing the book range also will make it fast so please start with a narrow range.

Bugs Fixed in Version 7.1

  1. Editor bug fixes:
    1. Insert link (or paste via search or copy from right preview pane) with text (range or not) that use Bible with abbreviation containing + do work (e.g. Byz2005+)
    2. WYSIWYG Edit link will make the module abbreviation with + not to work
    3. WYSIWYG Insert Compare verse link do not work
  2. Links of Bibles with abbreviation containing + in compare do not work
  3. Search Tags in Journals bug fixes:
    1. Also looks at title and content and not just tags.
    2. Reverts to FTS type when re-opened.
  4. Verse Selector for Honeycomb or higher will crash if the current verse book is invalid, i.e. book number is higher than 66 or zero (which can be caused by invalid bible links in modules; can be tested by long tapping Verse Selector then entering for example 67.1.2 or 0.1.2)
  5. Book self link to anchor on the same page for books migrated from The Word does not work if the anchor ends with - {Until (passage) is [None] in TheWord}.
  6. Chapters of Bibles with Verse Rules will fail to show up in case the rule is applied to a section of text containing $ symbol.
  7. Own Progress Tracking (Deluxe) bug fixes:
    1. Add reading with track that wrapped around to the start has bad verse range.
    2. Summary's table data width became small after System WebView update to version 50.
    3. Summary's table data when latest week speed is 0 shows 2147483647 days remaining and not ∞.

What's new in Version 7.0

  1. Popup loading is now faster. In the old version, Bible popups are slower compared to Translators' Notes or Merged XRefs even for few verses, and worst for the Non-English MySword UI. Now even very long content loads faster.
  2. Long tap text popup for Bible now includes Compare verse to easily compare other verses other than the current verse.
  3. Editor Detect verses improvement: Sng, Zeph and Zech abbreviations for Song of Songs, Zephaniah and Zechariah were added.
  4. Notes and Journal summary charts available in Jellybean and higher accessible via Menu->About->About Module. The count and total size in kilobytes (KB) of the most recent 120 dates with new entries are displayed in a line chart. Below it is a Monthly line chart.
  5. Share Compare Bible (Premium) now allows you to select which translations to share.
  6. Parallel view (Premium) improvement: In non-paragraph mode, the column width can be adjusted via touch and drag of the top header only when the entire width of the table fits because the horizontal panning takes precedence over touch to resize. Touch-drag is better supported in Lollipop and higher.
  7. Reading Plan and Own Pace Progress tracking (Deluxe) (for Froyo [Android 2.1] and higher only)
    1. Reading Plan

      You can create a reading plan with single track like from OT to NT or multiple tracks like OT, NT, Psalms and Proverbs; start any day; specify the number of days; and keep track of your progress.

    2. Own Pace Progress Tracker

      If you do not have specific plan but rather read the Bible at your own pace, you can also keep track of your progress and log the verses you had read for the day. Using the Bookmark labels to identify your tracks, you can easily add reading progress.

    3. Track the number of verses read per day per track as well as link the notes, tags with notes and journal entries written.
    4. Tapping the bottom progress information will give a summary with graph of verses read and notes written per day (for Jellybean and higher).
    5. Print the plan or progress.
    6. Calendar icon for Reading Plan added to:
      1. Bible button bar on top (rightmost)
      2. Compact Mode: Bible view Navigation Drawer and Custom buttons option for Top and Bottom

    A demo for non-Deluxe version is available for 30 days.

    See this article for more details: Using MySword Reading Plan

  8. Summary (Deluxe) improvements:
    1. Bible Preference Summary highlight: loading could be very slow for non-Bible content whose size exceeds 32KB so it is not automatically summarized but a message is just displayed.
    2. Popup (on demand summary): in case the size is very large (128 KB or higher for Bibles or 50 KB for others), a confirmation message is displayed if you want to proceed.

Bugs Fixed in Version 7.0

  1. Links within books do not work in some books.
  2. Module shortcuts on the Navigation Drawer does not work in Full screen.
  3. Detect verse bug: Psa 1-2, 5 will give Psa 1-2 and Psa 1:5
  4. When MySword is not running and you tap an unzipped MySword module, opening it via MySword will cause a crash.
  5. Extract verses on Book, Commentary and Dictionary views without modules will cause a crash.
  6. Summary (Deluxe) crashes in popup when there are any of the following characters in XRef Merge text .^$*+?()[{}\|
  7. Switching via Bible Preferences Merge adjacent Bible references or Horizontal Scrolling in Split screen (Deluxe) will make the header of all Bible views similar to the last Bible view.

What's new in Version 6.6

  1. Editor Find and Replace for both Plain/Wiki editor and WYSIWYG Rich text editor.
  2. New Help menu items: Mini User's Guide, Using Deluxe Edition (links to website).
  3. Added Pinch Zoom (Premium) in Search, preview, help and about module useful for print.
  4. Print content (Deluxe) for Kitkat or higher for Main screen, search results, preview (verse list, search view more, editor), word frequency, word occurrence, frequent word sets, frequent phrases, help and about module. Please note that there are no header, footer and page numbers in the print output. In Kitkat, there is no preview and you cannot choose the pages to be printed.
  5. New Search type: Similar for Bible, Commentary and Personal Notes; Similar title and Similar content for Dictionary, Journal and Book (Deluxe). Using word analysis, the most similar verses, titles or content to the current one are searched and sorted by the percentage similarity score (shown at the end of each item) from highest to lowest. You can also type arbitrary sentence on the Search box to look for similar title or content.
  6. New Stats and other info features (Deluxe) for Gingerbread and higher:
    1. Summary - display summary sentences only of the current page; inside the brackets is the rank and score (1 is normal sentence score) then followed by the sentence number
    2. Summary highlight - display the current page highlighting the summary sentences; the highest rank is given a stronger highlight color (search highlight color was used)
    3. Summary of clipboard - display the content of the clipboard highlighting the summary sentences

    Note: The summary feature uses word analysis to group similar sentences, get the centroid and rank them so the probable summary sentences are just extracted from existing ones, never simplified or combined and may not be very accurate. It is not intended to get the most important sentences or get insights from God's word but just to aid study. Please pray for the Holy Spirit for more revelation instead.

  7. New Bible Preference (Deluxe) for Gingerbread and higher: Summary highlight. This highlights the summary sentences in the main screen's content in place without using a popup unlike those in Stats and other info.

Bugs Fixed in Version 6.6

  1. Verse list select verse with specific Bible does not work if the Bible is different from the current one.
  2. K&D commentary as current module cannot be remembered upon exit and also have issues with search.
  3. Top footer link is not removed in Export page to file (Premium).
  4. Deluxe Frequent Word Sets / Phrases error in case of null Bible verse (e.g. Mark 15:28 ISV) and no Exact index created.
  5. Deluxe Horizontal Scrolling is no longer working after Chrome Android System WebView update to version 46 in Lollipop or higher.

What's new in Version 6.5

  1. Extract verses popup via Stats and other info menu (Info icon) used to display all the verses in the page using the current Bible module.
  2. Downloaded zipped (.mybible.zip and .mybible.gz) and unzipped (.mybible) modules can now be opened via File browsers/explorer and MySword can take care of copying the module into the correct modules path.
  3. Better RTL support:
    1. WYSIWYG Editor: RTL languages Locale display name whose first character is a parenthesis (in some devices) is now properly detected.
    2. Personal Notes and Journal that do not use the RTL module flag: RTL is detected using the date or title (only the first letter is used).
  4. New Stats and other info features for word analyses (Deluxe feature):
    1. Frequent Word Sets - given a range of verses/records, minimum number of supporting records, minimum size of the word set and an optional contains filter, all the frequent word sets are extracted sorted by frequency. You can use this to get the most common word pairs, triplets, quadruplets, etc. For example in KJV, the most common pair is {Lord, God} occurring 1600 times, triplet {Lord, Israel, God} 340 times.
    2. Frequent Phrases - given a range of verses/records, minimum number of supporting records, minimum size of phrase and an optional contains filter, all the frequent phrases are extracted sorted by frequency. For example in NHEB, the most common 5 word phrase is "the word of the Lord" occurring 251 times, while the second is "the house of the Lord" occurring 202 times (hey, it is God's word, remember).

Bugs Fixed in Version 6.5

  1. The text color do not work on Color Themes with dark background in Book view and other new modules (TSK, TSKe, KJC, Webster) with null CustomCSS and still shows as black.
  2. Verse detect bugs:
    1. Book names detected should not be preceded by any letters or numbers so that TMK 5 will not be detected as Mark 5 with letter T at the start.
    2. The space after chapter only verse should be excluded from the link.
  3. K&D Commentary not showing green in case there is an entry.
  4. Strong numbers with dots in ABP are not included in the FTS or Exact indexes so are not searchable.
  5. Edit Cross References (Deluxe feature): pasted verses are not saved.
  6. Pipe | in Highlight Words (Deluxe feature) creates highlight for each character making the &nbsp; to appear

What's new in Version 6.4

  1. New Preference:
    1. Settings file - choose the settings file to use (copy, rename, delete and select). This is a shortcut to manually copying the settings.mybible file and renaming it to settings.mybible.
    2. Reset settings file - resets settings file to fresh install state. This is done by deleting the settings file so that it will be recreated when MySword restarts.
  2. Bible Preferences improvements:
    1. Enabled in Free version for 7 options: Show highlights, Show notes, Show tags, Interlinear view, Show transliteration, Show interlinear text and Gradient highlight.
    2. Long tap for the Compact mode left Navigation Drawer now shows the toggle options for Premium/Deluxe if the Bible has like in Byzantine 2005++ just like the tablet's top button or in non-compact mode.
  3. Verse List on Compare/Parallel mode (no active Bible) improvements:
    1. Verses without specific Bible will use the first Bible with OT and NT for displayed text.
    2. Range will also use a similar Bible.
  4. Search improvements for RTL modules like Hebrew: the results as well as the preview are now right aligned.
  5. Editor improvement: Detect verses is now case-insensitive so that MAT 1:1 or mat 1:1 will now be detected.
  6. Merge Bible references improvement: one HTML break (new line but not new paragraph) is now considered a valid separator aside from comma and semicolon. This is useful for TSKe.
  7. New fresh install default settings: Bible, Dictionary and Personal Notes links as Popup are enabled.
  8. Bible Preferences (Premium) list adjustment: moved the Strong's links on text down to after Show title. This is to prevent confusion between it and Show Strong's tags.
  9. Edit Cross Reference (Deluxe) on Compare/Parallel mode (no active Bible) improvement: Verses without specific Bible will use the first Bible with OT and NT for displayed text.
  10. Adhoc tag (Deluxe) display improvements:
    1. Removed excessive bottom margin for verse in paragraph mode with Adhoc tag containing multiple paragraphs.
    2. Added bottom margin for verse in non-paragraph mode with Adhoc tag containing multiple paragraphs positioned before the verse.
    3. Multiple long content Adhoc tags are now left aligned (formerly, all are aligned except the first which is a bit indented to the left).

Bugs Fixed in Version 6.4

  1. Preferences->Button Style is not enabled in the Free version.
  2. Opening Verse List and Edit Cross References in Compare or Parallel mode will crash the Preview and View Clipboard if there are verses because there is no active Bible.
  3. Cross References back links ranges are due to ranges of the forward links; e.g. Psa 32:1 back link from Num 23:21 must only be Num 23:21 and not Num 23:21-22.
  4. ICS and higher using Default Android Theme displays an error when About is opened.
  5. If the Book view is never opened, changing the settings (like Text size and Color theme) causing a reload of the page but not the app shows: loadBrowser failed for type 5. Null
  6. User Color Theme should override the Book's Custom CSS just like the other module types.
  7. Visual Color Theme Editor (Premium) in tablet landscape mode with split screen displays error on opening.
  8. Edit Cross Reference's (Deluxe) Edit verse is not working.
  9. In Search Bible split preview (Deluxe) in compare, the Abbreviation link does not show popup of whole chapter.

Bugs Fixed in Version 6.3.1

  1. Failed to initialize error in Arrange Bible buttons.

What's new in Version 6.3

  1. Compact mode improvements:
    1. The 2 custom buttons at the bottom is increased to 4. Note that the 3rd is only useful for phablets while the 4th only for tablets, otherwise they will either be off the screen or overlapping the page down.
    2. Added new top right menu and custom button options: Verse List, Stats and other Info, and short cut to Module types (Bible, Commentary, Dictionary, Personal Notes, Journal and Book). For the bottom custom buttons, if the current view already matched the short cut (for example, you are already in Journal view and there is a Journal short cut), tapping it will switch to Bible so in effect it is a toggle to that view and Bible.
  2. WYSIWYG Editor improvements:
    1. Added Insert Box (via + or Insert button). You can specify the box color, style, size and background highlight/color. You can adjust the internal margin or padding by going to Format->Style parent tag, then adjust the padding which is default to 0.2em.
    2. Added new Format action: Edit parent HTML.
  3. Full screen with double tap and single tap both disabled is no longer allowed as it is hard for many users to exit full screen.
  4. Journal and Book list now follows similar sorting as in other views like the Bible: when Android Language is set to non-English locale, abbreviations in that locale are displayed first after those starting with numbers and before English; but using the English locale will cause non-English abbreviations to be displayed last.
  5. Added new Bible view preference: Old Testament quote. By default there is no style so you have to use the Visual Color Theme or CSS Editor. Note that there are only few Bibles with OT quote tags like KJV.
  6. Edit Bible Cross References (Deluxe) via left Navigation drawer or top right Bible button bar (locate the hyperlink icon). You can add, edit or remove Bible references on the current verse using a UI similar to Bookmark or Verse list manager.
  7. Added Stats and other Info bottom button (i icon; available also in Compact mode bottom menu) which currently have About Module and the Deluxe Word Frequency and Word Occurrence. In the future, more will be added like Extract verses.

Bugs Fixed in Version 6.3

  1. Navigating to a Bible link in Full screen when Show topic in full screen is checked causes a crash.
  2. Compact mode long tap popup menu will no longer show up if the Navigation drawer on the left was partially opened then closed (not fully opened). The only way to bring it back is either to restart MySword or fully open the drawer then close.
  3. Book/Journal entries with title containing # do not show up.
  4. Non-WYSIYWG Editor crashes loading content with length greater than 10,500 and also limits the content to that size in some devices like LG.

What's new in Version 6.2

  1. Search improvements:
    1. New Search types: Title - for Dictionary/Book/Journal; Tag for Journal/Book. Both are plain string searches so prefix, infix and suffix are included.
    2. Tags if present are now included in the search results and preview/view more for Journal/Book
    3. Non-English modules (except Book/Journal) will default search type to No accent if present
    4. Improvement on Dictionary/Book/Journal Search index for No accents (diacritics), Regular expression (No accents) and the Deluxe Exact or Prefix and Exact [all use the same index]: title is now included in case it is not found in the content indexed. You will need to reindex via Menu->Reindex. The Standard type still do not include the title even if it is not found in the content to make searching faster while the Premium FTS and Deluxe FTS Exact already included the title.
  2. Compact mode improvement: you can now add 2 semi-transparent bottom buttons (go to Preferences->Buttons Arrangement->Compact mode custom buttons (bottom).
  3. Merge Bible references will now merge references enclosed in bold or italics.
  4. Popups will now make Bible links those references using underscore to separate book from chapter like Job_3:26 in Strong's H7951.
  5. Support for anchor/bookmark range in Journals/Books similar to Dictionary LSJ useful popup of short text like abbreviation lookup that is reusable in different entries (also just like in The Word). The anchor name should not contain hyphen (-) as it is used for range. The options are:
    1. anchor name ends with - means text from the anchor up to before the next anchor (if any) only will be included; e.g. ##goal1-
    2. anchor name followed by - then another anchor name means up to before the second anchor name; e.g. ##goal1-goal4
    3. anchor name without - means old behavior including whole content for book/journal but not for dictionary; e.g. ##goal1
  6. Editor auto list (typing I. text Enter or 1. , A. , * or -) will no longer have 0 margin on list items so that Custom CSS will work.
  7. Long tap text to show Popup menu improvement in Deluxe: Lookup word in other dictionaries.
  8. Horizontal scrolling (Deluxe) improvement: Previous chapter via swipe, link or button now goes to the end of the chapter.
  9. Strong's links on text (Deluxe) improvement: Morphological code only without Strong's number is now included (e.g. Gen 1:3 ALXX ειπεν link to v-aai-3s; please download the latest ALXX)

Bugs Fixed in Version 6.2

  1. Dictionary popup issues:
    1. Links within the same dictionary do not use the same dictionary but instead the default one.
    2. When Select is tapped on a dictionary popup opened from a dictionary popup, the default dictionary will be used instead of the one used in popup.
  2. Parallel top Prev/Next in Compact mode occupied extra columns in landscape or tablets.
  3. Split Modules Path check box is enabled in some devices even if there is no External SD card present.
  4. Sub menus of About, Copy/Export and Help does not show properly on full screen using non-Default theme.
  5. Share (Premium) content with Horizontal rule (HR tag, e.g. from Journal, Book or Dictionary) still shows the HTML tag.
  6. Share (Premium) content with paragraph embedded in list shows as Wiki.
  7. Strong text as link's (Deluxe) popup's morphological tags do not work on some modules.
  8. Word Frequency (Deluxe) do not work on Large buttons.

What's new in Version 6.1

  1. Long tap text to show Popup menu is now also supported in Non-Compact mode for Jellybean and higher. You can disable the menu in both modes in Display Preferences.
  2. Compact mode improvement: top right menu buttons can now be customized (go to Preferences->Buttons Arrangement->Compact mode menu (top right).
  3. Dark and Light Holographic themes are now supported in QVGA or small devices (with smallest screens like Galaxy Chat, Pocket and Star).
  4. Bookmark and Verse List will now auto select the newly added verse so that if Select/Save is tapped next the current verse will not change.
  5. New Display preferences:
    1. Volume control page change: enabled by default (original behavior) but can be disabled to use volume control in change volume and not for page up and down.
    2. Parallel swipe page navigation: to enable horizontal swipe to change page in Parallel view, good if all columns fit.
  6. In compact mode, added Prev/Next links on the top in Parallel view.
  7. Compact mode long tap Dictionary lookup (Deluxe) will now show as popup if Dictionary link as popup is enabled.

Bugs Fixed in Version 6.1

  1. MySword crashes on Froyo and Eclair. It also crashes on Gingerbread if Larger Button size is selected.
  2. Compact mode crashes on QVGA devices (smallest screens like Galaxy Chat, Pocket and Star).
  3. External MySword links (in SMS, email, etc) and apps linked to MySword (Bible Reading Plan, etc) will cause a crash in case MySword is not running in the background.
  4. WYSIWYG Editor's increase/decrease indent on list create invalid nesting of HTML list even though it is still displayed properly.
  5. Verse list slows down on verse range spanning many verses like Psa 119:1-176.

What's new in Version 6.0

  1. New Compact mode for ICS, Jellybean, Kitkat, Lollipop and higher: one Action bar on the top and no bottom bar.
    1. You can switch via Menu->Compact mode and switch back to normal dual button bar mode via Menu->Non-Compact mode.
    2. Upper-left home menu or swipe from left to show the Navigation Drawer similar to the Button style: Drawer top or both. This drawer also contains for Bible: Bible view preferences, Verse list and Parallel.
    3. To the right of the home menu is the Module selector and Topic/Verse selector.
    4. For tablets, the Bible view has two additional buttons after the Verse selector: Bible view preferences and Verse list; the Journal view also has two additional buttons: New journal entry and Edit journal entry. For phones, these actions must be selected via the Navigation Drawer.
    5. Menu is now on the upper right overflow button in case the device do not have a hardware menu button (it is also still available on the virtual button at the bottom in some devices).
    6. Search and Bookmarks are added on the menu and shown on the Action bar as icons if they can fit (Search only for small devices).
    7. The lower right now have the page scrollers always visible.
    8. The lower left contains the previous/next navigation (long tap for history as usual) and sub-menu button for those actions that are normally on the former bottom button bar: Format, Highlight, Tag, Highlight Words, Text-to-speech, Text-to-speech Settings, Share text and Split view panes.
    9. Long tapping a word content will also show a popup menu (not available in ICS) similar to the bottom sub-menu button actions. In Deluxe, when a word is selected, that word will appear in two menu items: Search word and Lookup word (for dictionary lookup).
  2. New Display Preference: Show topic in fullscreen (default to No). There will be a gray text on the top in full screen to indicate the Bible and verse for Bible view or Module name and topic in other views.
  3. Modern system icons are now Material Design compliant: smaller but simpler.
  4. Search Bible View More now have Compare.
  5. Default Action bar color (Free) and Button Bar color (Deluxe) resulting Action bar color for Lollipop's Light Material Design theme is no longer very saturated (bleeding).
  6. Copy current Journal entry into another Journal (Premium). Please see the Copy button on the top bar or the Navigation drawer for Compact mode.
  7. Word Occurrence (Deluxe): given keywords, determine the occurrences per Bible chapter and list from highest to lowest to know where those keywords occur most. Note that this is a string search if there is no Exact / No accent search index for the module, though case-insensitive (in English), it will still include prefixes, infixes, suffixes and words in titles and notes for Bibles. Commentary and Personal notes are per verse while Dictionary, Journal and Book are per entry/topic. See Menu->About->Word Occurrence.
  8. Word Frequency (Deluxe): given a Bible verse range or a verse for Commentary and Notes or a topic for other module types, list the words found and the frequency. See Menu->About->Word Frequency.
  9. The regular hyphen (-), square brackets [ ], curly braces { }, slash (/) and back-slash (\) are also now excluded in the Exact and FTS Exact (Deluxe). Please reindex the modules via Search screen.

Bugs Fixed in Version 6.0

  1. Problem showing menu in full screen of Lollipop because the showing of the virtual buttons hides again the menu.
  2. Starting full screen then switch back in Kitkat and higher no longer shows the status bar.
  3. Editor Insert Link verse range (Premium) crashes if the current Bible is compare.
  4. In Split Modules path, dropping zipped font files on the internal storage modules path does not work as the files are extracted into fonts under the internal storage and not the external storage for split.
  5. Bookmark Commentary and Personal Notes (Deluxe) use the current Bible verse and not the Commentary's or Notes'.
  6. In Search split preview (Deluxe), the Compare in popup does not work.
  7. Bookmarks/Verse List change Group (Deluxe) then save without tapping an item can cause a crash.