From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/17311 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: \setupsystem[random] Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:11:19 +0100 Message-ID: <41AB4A27.7000601@wxs.nl> References: <41A72C9C.80504@creutzig.de> <41A8E003.4040905@wxs.nl> <41AB12F5.2090300@creutzig.de> <41AB290A.6050905@wxs.nl> <41AB433F.6030701@creutzig.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1101746061 9236 80.91.229.6 (29 Nov 2004 16:34:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:34:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Nov 29 17:34:17 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 1CYo7U-00089m-00 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:11:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5823127B1; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:11:19 +0100 (CET) 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 26310-05; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:11:17 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED07A127AA; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:11:16 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC9C0127AA for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:11:15 +0100 (CET) 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 26285-06 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:11:15 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mailrelay02.solcon.nl (unknown [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04390127A2 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:11:15 +0100 (CET) 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 iATGBBEB012552 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:11:11 +0100 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 1FD6E17C80; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:11:14 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.191] (unknown [10.100.1.191]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCFE917AF1 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:11:12 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <41AB433F.6030701@creutzig.de> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/540/Tue Oct 19 14:59:23 2004 clamav-milter version 0.80j on mailrelay02 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: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:17311 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:17311 Christopher Creutzig wrote: > Hans Hagen wrote: > >> the problem is that the tex/mp randomizers are based on time and >> therefore too fragile (too little resolution) on fast machines; so i >> let texexec set the seed > > > So even in the case where the TeX code contains \setupsystem[seed=212], > texexec does some additional calculations? (The error I got made me > think that the number I entered was directly used in TeX calculations.) it does the calculation but the following setup does it again; this is why the texexec patch is needed (although i never ran into such large number side effects) 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------