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Confusion on terminology
Sorry, I am a little confused on terminology. Let me see if I can be more precise and see if can understand your comment. There are two methods to highlight passages. One way is by hitting the paragraph link (either the verse number or the little circle) which brings up a list of choices such as bookmarking, select "Highlight Verse" and then select a color. This highlights the background of the whole verse even between words; the links have the selected background color but retain their link highlight style (blue underlined font). I will call this "paragraph highlighting". The second method is to select the "highlight" button at the bottom of the screen, the application switches to a highlighting mode, and you have a choice of font color, font style, and background color for your style. I will call this "passage highlighting". This gives you more highlighting choices, but, on mine, highlighting by changing the background color still leaves unhighlighted spaces between words Using this method of highlighting, links highlighting will still retain their color (blue) and underline, but will add any of the other highlights you give it (background, bolding).

I cannot with passage highlighting using a background color, highlight the space between words which leaves the highlighted text "ugly" (IMHO). Just to let you know, I usually mark my scriptures using paragraph highlighting because it takes me about 3 seconds to do that way while it takes about 3 seconds just to switch into passage highlighting mode. Passage highlighting mode is sooooo slow, I have complained about it (privately in email). I would switch to passage highlighting more with highlighting the background color if it were 1. Faster to do, and 2. Highlight between words.

So, I use paragraph highlighting normally, and passage highlighting (red text) when I feel it is important enough to warrant the extra time to highlight. Unfortunately, the passage highlighting usually includes a link to two, giving the red-blue-red text. I felt it was "ugly", so I wrote the comment.

As for those who use underlining as a highlighting, I can completely understand that reasoning. While I prefer background highlighting, I can see underline highlighting bein another popular choice. I didn't mean to suggest "the one and only way" to fix it, which I am sure you understood but it is a good point to remind the developers. No matter what you choose, you are going to limit someone. I mean, what if my preferred highlighting was blue underlined text? I would have the problem you brought up. The developers did a good job of choosing a combination that people were unlikely to prefer.

I know this post is long, but I think the issue comes down to user control of the highlighting, both links and personal selections. If we were able to control what the highlight style of the links were, we could have it both ways (me-underlined, someone else-another way). I would even like to specify the highlighting behavior when the two are combined. The trick here is to do it it an "easy and intuitive" way.

Oh, and I want to be able to enter/exit passage highlighting quicker.

I believe I will write up another feature request or two.