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: pra...@wxs.nl
> To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
> CC: mathieudup...@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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