Ryuzine Writer version 0.9.6.3 introduces a new “add-on” system we hope may spur some third-party development of extensions to our stand-alone authoring webapp.  In fact, we’ve moved several parts of Writer from core code into optional add-ons.

This new add-on system also has some functions that make it easy to add your own “Start Screen” shortcut buttons, dialog boxes, output options, even entire custom “workspaces” appended to the ones already included in Ryuzine Writer.

Because this is new and of a much more technical nature than the rest of the Writer manual, which is targeted at publishers not programmers, we’ve created a manual “supplement” focused exclusively on this new add-on system available at https://www.ryumaru.com/library/addons096x.htm

It should also be mentioned that the “rich text” editor used in Ryuzine Writer is a highly modified version of the Xinha project, which has it’s own, entirely separate, plug-in and theme system.  Some of the Ryuzine Writer editor functionality and themed appearance is implemented through those systems, but if you want to install or develop a extension for the rich text editor be aware third-party plug-ins may not work with our modified version and (vice versa) if you develop an extension in conjunction with the implementation in Ryuzine Writer your plugin may not work properly in the unaltered editor, so make sure you test it!