From: "Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: images as background
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 22:25:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47546849-B607-4FC2-96DD-A8CBBC06761B@uni-bonn.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9EAB3C39-78E0-454D-AAB2-58BF5FB10AF2@uni-bonn.de>
On Sep 2, 2008, at 9:43 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> for a presentation, I would like to have a series of images as
> backgrounds for my slides, and I want to use them in a randomized
> order. The images are named "1.jpg" through "20.jpg." So I was
> thinking of using this code:
>
> \externalfigure[\directlua0{print(math.random(20))}][width=
> \paperwidth]
>
> epecting that this should But that doesn't work, ConTeXt doesn't find
> my pictures (I get "name: dummy" texts). Any idea what is going wrong?
>
> Thomas
Got it, finally:
\externalfigure[\directlua0{tex.write(math.random(20))}][width=
\paperwidth]
Sorry for the noise...
Thomas
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