Bible notes can be inserted manually by inserting all markers needed one by one.
But there are also convenience functions in the Insert menu.
A new footnote can be inserted in the text by choosing menu Insert - Footnote.
A new window will come up, where you can set what will be inserted.
This also applies to a new endnote or a new crossreference.
Bible notes are marked by a asterisk or character in the text area and its text is visible at the bottom of it.
The asterisk corresponds to no caller (-), the characters to automatic callers or a given caller in the text.
Removing a note works as you would remove any text.
Notes can be cut and paste in a text (which is only useful in the same verse, if a verse-reference (\fr or \xo) is included.
While editing text, you can press the Tab key to move to the bible notes editor, and edit the note text there. Pressing Shift+Tab takes you back to the text area.
If a project is printed, it will show the footnotes, endnotes, and crossreferences. Printing a list of references does not.
Footnotes and crossreferences normally appear at the bottom of the page, inside the column they belong to.
This has restrictions when a page consists of two columns, and when headings are placed in the full page width following the footnotes or crossreferences. In this case the footnotes or crossreferences do not appear at the bottom of the page, but just before the start of the header. This is a bug in XEP.
There are two possible solutions for the problem.
* Let the notes be printed over the full width of the page. There is an option for that in the menu, Preferences, Printing.
* Or do not put headings in the text that span the two columns and follow the footnotes or crossreferences.
Endnotes normally are printed at the end of all other text. This can be changed in the stylesheet. Edit the style for \fe to change that. The other options are to print them at the end of each book, or upon encountering a certain marker in the text.
A Bible note has a caller. The style of the caller can be set in the markers, see USFM under marker \f. For crossreferences set it under marker \x.
A "+" prints a caller with automatic numbering, a "-" prints no caller at all, and any other character prints that character as a caller.
The automatic numbering can be influenced in the stylesheet, under marker f for footnotes and under marker x for crossreferences. The numbering 1, 2, 3 ... should be clear, and the numbering a, b, c ... follows the alphabet, and after reaching the z it starts all over again. A user defined numbering sequence can be given too. When for example §†* is given there, the numbering goes like §, †, *, §, †, *, and so forth. Any sequence of characters can be used.
Optionally the automatic numbering can be restarted every page, chapter or book.
If there are many footnotes, 10 per page or more, and the numbering restarts every page, assign the footnote caller double space to allow room for the numbers 10 and up. Same applies to crossreferences.
For a footnote, the \ft style has a full paragraph setting in the stylesheet. Here you can set how the normal footnote paragraph is going to look. For a crossreference, set the style under marker \xt.
For a new paragraph in the footnote, the style can be set under the \fp marker.