From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: \itemize[random] does not work
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:46:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49AAD810.7040800@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D4E90A80-06D9-4E58-8870-D281D98696A1@gmail.com>
Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
> Am 27.02.2009 um 22:22 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:
>
>>>> I've also noticed a strange thing: the first item always is the first -
>>>> it won't get mixed with the others.
>>
>> There is a bug somewhere in the initialization of the random number
>> generator. The first random number is always 1. An easy work around is
>> to add \nextrandom somewhere before \starttext and then the first item
>> will be random.
>
>
> The best would be to add
>
> \appendtoks\nextrandom\to\everystarttext
>
> to the core.
i'd rather try to figure out why the initialization fails; i noticed it
a while ago, but couldn't find the reason
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-01 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-27 10:57 Marcin Borkowski
2009-02-27 11:25 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-02-27 11:36 ` Marcin Borkowski
2009-02-27 11:47 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-02-27 21:22 ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-02-27 22:45 ` Curious Learn
2009-02-27 23:45 ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-02-28 11:08 ` Curious Learn
2009-02-28 11:14 ` batela
2009-03-01 9:29 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-03-01 18:46 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2009-03-01 22:17 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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