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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