Xiphos is a small, simple, easy to use application, specially designed to help you lookup and search Bible texts and commentaries. Xiphos uses the modules & libraries from The SWORD Project (250 Bibles, 30 commentaries; many other books).
This tool will enable you to:
· View your favorite Scripture verse
· Make sermon or personal notes on selected passages
· Automatically follow Bible footnotes and cross-references
· Compare translations in parallel
· Work in original language study using the available Hebrew and Greek translations
Xiphos aims to provide a simple and clean user interface while providing a powerful tool allowing a personalized Bible study environment.
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· The WebKit display driver, which finally brings display feature parity to Windows with what has been available on other platforms for some time. WebKit is now our normal display driver for all platforms. Windows users should see §3.9 of the manual for differences from the older gtkhtml3 driver. Mozembed (xulrunner) is no longer in use, replaced by WebKit. Note that certain problems were encountered regarding RtoL languages, especially Arabic and Hebrew (Farsi seems fine) very late in the effort to finalize Win32 WebKit support. Farsi both fully translates and provides RtoL-inverted display; Hebrew translates fully (modulo missing strings) but does not RtoL-invert; most perversely, Arabic translates half strings and does not RtoL-invert. We do not yet understand these flaws but will continue to try to resolve them, perhaps in a 3.1.6 for Windows only, as these problems do not haunt non-Windows builds at all.
· GTK3 compatibility, for the sake of newly-updated environments such as Fedor...
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