From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/68988 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Random selection of a word in a set with lua and mkiv Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:00:18 +0200 Message-ID: <4DEFAAA2.6000100@wxs.nl> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1307552461 14672 80.91.229.12 (8 Jun 2011 17:01:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 17:01:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Otared Kavian To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jun 08 19:00:56 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QUM7k-0005Wz-Ks for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:00:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08628CAD96; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 19:00:55 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id TmlWSYRUXa5A; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 19:00:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BCEFCAD80; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 19:00:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D56BCAD80 for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 19:00:51 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id NiHOXZIGCS7m for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 19:00:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter4-ams.mf.surf.net (filter4-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.72]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E6C7CAD39 for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 19:00:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter4-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id p58H0mVH014854 for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 19:00:48 +0200 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.100; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 5.2a) with ESMTP id 2320-1713362 for multiple; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:00:45 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 ThunderBrowse/3.3.5 In-Reply-To: X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=11; city=Den Haag; latitude=52.0833; longitude=4.3000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.0833,4.3000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 03ERt0Mdc - 75876ba884b3 - 20110608 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.72 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:68988 Archived-At: On 8-6-2011 6:52, Otared Kavian wrote: > Hi all, > > Assuming that we have a set of words or expressions, say > {Maths, Physics, Algebra, Analysis, Chemistry, Geometry, Wave equation, = Schr=F6dinger equation} > is it possible to write a lua function, named for instance > randomselectword > which returns one of the words or expressions selected at random in the a= bove set? > Indeed this is intended to be used in a TeX file processed with mkiv. something function document.r(str) local set =3D utilities.parsers.settings_to_array(str) context(set[math.round(math.random(1,#set))]) end \ctxlua{document.r("math physics")} (untested) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________= ________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to t= he Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-cont= ext webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________= ________