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<p>I have been developing e-learning materials for years on
Authorware (Macromedia, now Adobe) I am looking for a new
replacement for AW (because of its demise)</p>
<p>Xerte looks very promising. Here are a number of questions that I
was not able to clarify from your demos</p>
<p>1. Does Xerte support Unicode?</p>
<p>2. Can I use the program for Right-to-Left languages like Hebrew
and Arabic?</p>
<p>3. Does the program allow the learner to respond in sentences or
paragraphs?</p>
<p>4. I have a great deal of audio (I teach languages) that I
currently play to illustrate words and text. I would like to be
able to play only a small segment of a sound (mp3) file using
start cue and stop cues that the program accesses using query to a
database. Can Xerte support this? In other words, I want to avoid
having a separate sound file for each utterance.<br>
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<p>5. Can I also play a segment of a video clip (again startcue to
stopcue)?</p>
<p>6. From within the program can an email be sent to the instructor
with the results of an exercise that the learner has done that
would report on: the scores, the time spent on the exercise and
possible other data?</p>
<p>7. Can I build a dictionary with which the learner can look up
the meaning of a word or phrase in my dictionary database? In
other words, can I address SQL queries to my database from within
Xerte?<br>
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<p>8. Can the learner run xerte programs from his/her hard drive or
must the program be run from a server? And must the server be my
university's server or could it be on a web server that I rent an
account from?</p>
<p>9. Presently I can do all of the above using Authorware---except
that I have to trick the machine into displaying Hebrew and
Authorware no longer is supported by Macintosh.</p>
<p>I do not know if I have addressed these questions to the right
address. If not, would you be so kind to forward my query to the
right person or direct me to do so.</p>
<p>Cordially,</p>
<p>Jonathan Paradise</p>
Professor of Hebrew
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