From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/75103 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Thomas A. Schmitz" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: random background picture in metafun Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:23:54 +0100 Message-ID: <4F6233BA.3010305@uni-bonn.de> References: <4F5F5DA1.1050202@uni-bonn.de> <4F5F76CC.1090800@gmx.net> <4F5F90D6.5040009@gmx.net> <4F61B400.4020607@uni-bonn.de> <4F622F88.1080903@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1331835843 18131 80.91.229.3 (15 Mar 2012 18:24:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:24:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users To: Hans Hagen Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Mar 15 19:24:02 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S8FLF-0007GJ-JY for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:24:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CACB0101EC; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:24:00 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id qJ3Mtou8FWLw; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:23:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54FC9101DF; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:23:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BE89101DF for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:23:57 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Uzh0yfEIJZys for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:23:56 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter5-ams.mf.surf.net (filter5-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.73]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C62B101DE for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:23:56 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from uni-bonn.de (mail.uni-bonn.de [131.220.15.113]) by filter5-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id q2FITKG8009770 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:29:20 +0100 Original-Received: from [87.178.24.71] (account tschmit1@uni-bonn.de HELO [192.168.0.26]) by fe2.uni-bonn.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.4.4) with ESMTPSA id 12255400; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:23:55 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111002 Thunderbird/7.0.1 In-Reply-To: <4F622F88.1080903@wxs.nl> X-Bayes-Prob: 0.901 (Score 4.2, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=131.220.15.113; country=DE; region=07; city=Bonn; latitude=50.7333; longitude=7.1000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=50.7333,7.1000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0IGJStkeA - 9dce9ab14cd7 - 20120315 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.73 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:75103 Archived-At: On 03/15/2012 07:06 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > > Ah, but keep in mind that the random number is stored in the tuc file! > So, as long as that file is not wiped, you get the same random number > initialization. Imagine what would happen if we would not do that. So, > just erase the tuc if you want another seed. Oops, yes of course, that makes sense - all presentations are generated from the same xml file, so the tuc never changes! After deleting it, I get more of the desired randomness - thanks a lot for the pointer! All best Thomas ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________