On Sep 2, 2008, at 9:43 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> for a presentation, I would like to have a series of images as
> backgrounds for my slides, and I want to use them in a randomized
> order. The images are named "1.jpg" through "20.jpg." So I was
> thinking of using this code:
>
> \externalfigure[\directlua0{print(math.random(20))}][width= 
> \paperwidth]
>
> epecting that this should  But that doesn't work, ConTeXt doesn't find
> my pictures (I get "name: dummy" texts). Any idea what is going wrong?
>
> Thomas

Got it, finally:

\externalfigure[\directlua0{tex.write(math.random(20))}][width= 
\paperwidth]

Sorry for the noise...

Thomas
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