From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/15796 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Outside Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Re: Disable Metapost rendering? Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 08:17:28 -0700 Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Message-ID: <4103CF08.3090204@wxs.nl> References: <7BE42415-DD60-11D8-A84A-0003939959D2@t-online.de> <41028A02.1010902@wxs.nl> <870EE002-DE15-11D8-8B0D-0003939959D2@t-online.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1090768666 12609 80.91.224.253 (25 Jul 2004 15:17:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 15:17:46 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Jul 25 17:17:36 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bokkq-0006yl-00 for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 17:17:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A4AC12780; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 17:17:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29827-01; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 17:17:32 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59B431276C; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 17:17:32 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E52241276C for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 17:17:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29772-03-4 for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 17:17:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailrelay02.solcon.nl (unknown [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A2D21276B for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 17:17:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay02.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i6PFHRJw017430 for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 17:17:27 +0200 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 2CC911ACB5; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 17:17:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [10.100.1.1]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FBF71A4D2 for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 15:17:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <870EE002-DE15-11D8-8B0D-0003939959D2@t-online.de> X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version 0.73, clamav-milter version 0.73a on mailrelay02.solcon.nl X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:15796 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:15796 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------