Thanks Taco. I am not sure, why it does not work for me. I am copying and pasting the log file. Could please someone take a look and let me know what the problem might be. Thanks. ********************************************** This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.43.0-2009081911  \write18 enabled. 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Curiouslearn wrote:

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The following is an example. Randomization occurs with MKII, but not with MKIV.

Works here (it outputs in 2-4-1-3 order)

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Thanks Taco. I will try that. On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

Curiouslearn wrote:

...

Thanks Taco. I am not sure, why it does not work for me. I am copying and pasting the log file. Could please someone take a look and let me know what the problem might be.

Could be a fix in a beta. I run

This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.45.0-2009111614

 \write18 enabled.

(./rand

ConTeXt  ver: 2009.11.15 18:01 MKIV  fmt: 2009.11.16  int: english/english

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Does not work for me. Luigi, the reason I have used the \setupsystem[random=] is to control the randomization and not have it change everytime I compile it. This is I think necessary if I want the answerkey that identfies the correct option. On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:05 AM, luigi scarso wrote:

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Curiouslearn wrote:

...

The following is an example. Randomization occurs with MKII, but not with MKIV.

\setupsystem[random=123]

\starttext

\startitemize[a,random]     \startitem This is item 1 \stopitem     \startitem This is item 2 \stopitem     \startitem This is item 3 \stopitem     \startitem This is item 4 \stopitem \stopitemize

\stoptext

It works ok here, if I undertstand what you want.

What about %%test.tex \starttext

 \startitemize[a,random]     \startitem This is item 1 \stopitem     \startitem This is item 2 \stopitem     \startitem This is item 3 \stopitem     \startitem This is item 4 \stopitem  \stopitemize \stoptext

$>context --purgeall; context test.tex ; mv test.pdf test-1.pdf $>context --purgeall; context test.tex ; mv test.pdf test-2.pdf $>context --purgeall; context test.tex ; mv test.pdf test-3.pdf

I see differents pdfs test-1,test-2,test-3

With your code, all pdf are the same.

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