From: Mathieu Dupont <mathieudupont@hotmail.com>
To: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>, ConTeXt <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Random selection of a word in a set with lua and mkiv
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 17:19:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <COL107-W3512A758BB9332F3269DE5B2620@phx.gbl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DEFAC66.9000002@wxs.nl>
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I see.So it can be fixed by simply adding the first line before the second :\CHOOSERANDOM{""}\CHOOSERANDOM{"Maths", "Physics", "Algebra", "Analysis", "Chemistry", "Geometry", "Wave equation", "Schrödinger equation"}Thanks, that fixes one of my problems !
Mathieu
> Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 19:07:50 +0200
> From: pragma@wxs.nl
> To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
> CC: mathieudupont@hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Random selection of a word in a set with lua and mkiv
>
> On 8-6-2011 7:00, Mathieu Dupont wrote:
> >
> >
> > This following code works, except that the first random is always the same (Analysis) for some reason.
> > Anyone knows why ?
> > \enableregime[il1]\starttext\startluacode userdata = userdata or {} math.randomseed( os.time() ) function userdata.random(...) context(arg[math.random(1, #arg)]) end\stopluacode\def\CHOOSERANDOM#1{\ctxlua{userdata.random(#1)}}\dorecurse{10}{\CHOOSERANDOM{"Maths", "Physics", "Algebra", "Analysis", "Chemistry", "Geometry", "Wave equation", "Schrödinger equation"}\par}\stoptext
>
> Because context remembers the seed (is reported in the log). Delete the
> tuc file and you will get another value. We could get oscillation
> otherwise.
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-08 17:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-08 16:52 Otared Kavian
2011-06-08 17:00 ` Hans Hagen
2011-06-08 17:00 ` Mathieu Dupont
2011-06-08 17:07 ` Hans Hagen
2011-06-08 17:19 ` Mathieu Dupont [this message]
2011-06-08 20:12 ` Otared Kavian
2011-06-08 20:48 ` Hans Hagen
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