Re: Re: Disable Metapost rendering?

[Hans Hagen Outside <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Sebastian Sturm wrote:

> Hi,
>
> that sounds very promising - especially --automp, since I don't really 
> want to change my ConTeXt script everytime I changed a MP figure. 
> Including --automp in my script file, however, didn't stop ConTeXt 
> from recalculating my MP figures every time I typeset the document, 
> even though I hadn't changed them in the meantime. I couldn't find 
> anything about automp in the TeXExec manual, but the --help option 
> tells me that automp causes it to render mp pictures only if needed. 
> So how does it determine whether a recalculation is necessary or not? 
> Is it a problem if my figures rely on the randomizers, like 
> uniformdeviate()?

indeed, that can be solved by setting the random seed occasionally or manually   

\setupsystem[random=big] % or random=12345


Hans 


-----------------------------------------------------------------
                                          Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE
              Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands
     tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com
                                             | www.pragma-pod.nl
-----------------------------------------------------------------