From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: \itemize[random] does not work
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:22:02 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0902271608110.6570@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <115224fb0902270347i27afe54em3d3a6af4508157a0@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> 2009/2/27 Marcin Borkowski <mbork@atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl>:
>
>> Thanks for a speedy response!
>>
>> I've also noticed a strange thing: the first item always is the first -
>> it won't get mixed with the others.
>
> This is normal although I have here a document [1] where the first item
> always appear between the other items,
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.
Aditya
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-27 21:22 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 [this message]
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
2009-03-01 22:17 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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