From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/47832 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: \itemize[random] does not work Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:22:02 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: References: <20090227105707.GD31711@atos.labs.wmid.amu.edu.pl> <115224fb0902270325m12ee291fw1e5487ea53cadf2c@mail.gmail.com> <20090227113620.GE31711@atos.labs.wmid.amu.edu.pl> <115224fb0902270347i27afe54em3d3a6af4508157a0@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1235769952 19314 80.91.229.12 (27 Feb 2009 21:25:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:25:52 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Feb 27 22:27:08 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LdAEW-0003qt-Gf for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:27:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42CEA1FB3C; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:25:29 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 15109-01-9; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:24:44 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E51881FADC; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:24:39 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 318E91FB1F for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:24:00 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 13691-04-4 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:23:03 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter1-til.mf.surf.net (filter1-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.217]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB49C1FA4C for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:22:43 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from hackers.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.14.81]) by filter1-til.mf.surf.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n1RLMf4r006011 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:22:42 +0100 Original-Received: FROM [192.168.2.8] (c-71-234-195-113.hsd1.ct.comcast.net [71.234.195.113]) BY hackers.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 49A859A0.26E36.12872 ; 27 Feb 2009 16:22:40 -0500 In-Reply-To: <115224fb0902270347i27afe54em3d3a6af4508157a0@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=141.211.14.81; country=US; region=MI; city=Ann Arbor; postalcode=48109; latitude=42.2923; longitude=-83.7145; metrocode=505; areacode=734; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.2923,-83.7145&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 186357079 - 8565ddd2ec87 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.217 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:47832 Archived-At: On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > 2009/2/27 Marcin Borkowski : > >> 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________