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Paul, Brent S | 1 Mar 2009 03:25

Re: initexmf.EXE: No formats.ini exists

Cornelis,

    I checked as the formats.ini file is in the .../miktex/config directory.  Does this have anything to do with
the 64-bit system and the fact that there is a Program Files and Program Files (x86)?

Brent

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On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Paul, Brent S  wrote:

> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:48:50 -0500
> (cut)
> Subject: [MiKTeX]  initexmf.EXE: No formats.ini exists
> 
> Cornelius,
>
> 	When I try your suggestion for the wizard I get the same error.
> A MikTeX Problem Report opens up and states "No formats.ini exists".
>
> Brent
>
You say that MikteX 2.7 doesn't find formats.ini even thought a
file of that name exists - strange: I would assume that the
wizard fetches that file from the MikTeX repository -
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Alan G Isaac | 2 Mar 2009 21:42
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Re: random variables with latex

On 3/2/2009 2:15 PM azzam.hassan <at> voila.fr apparently wrote:
> How can one obtain random values (To be assignated to a given counter)with tex and/or latex or eventually
with psticks?

I do not know, but I'll guess that using LuaTeX would
make this trivial.

Alan Isaac

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Martin Schröder | 2 Mar 2009 22:10
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Re: random variables with latex

2009/3/2 Alan G Isaac <aisaac <at> american.edu>:
> I do not know, but I'll guess that using LuaTeX would
> make this trivial.

pdfTeX can generate random numbers since 1.30.0

Best
   Martin

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Joel Coltoff | 2 Mar 2009 22:23
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Re: random variables with latex

azzam.hassan <at> voila.fr wrote:
> Hello 
> How can one obtain random values (To be assignated to a given counter)with tex and/or latex or eventually
with psticks?
> Thanks un advance
> 

This is from a 1995 posting to comp.text.tex by Donald Arseneau.
I don't remember if I tried it. I hope I got the cut and paste
correct. If you try it and there are problems email me and
I'll send it to you directly as an attachment.

- Joel

% RANDOM.TEX   Generating "random" numbers in TeX.
%
% Random integers are generated in the range 1 to 2147483646 by the
% macro \nextrandom.  The result is returned in the counter \randomi.
% Do not change \randomi except, perhaps, to initialize it at some
% random value.  If you do not initialize it, it will be initialized
% using the time and date.  (This is a sparse initialization, giving
% fewer than a million different starting values, but you can use
% other sources of numbers if they are available -- just remember that
% most of the numbers available to TeX are not at all random.)
%
% The \nextrandom command is not very useful by itself, unless you
% have exactly 2147483646 things to choose from.  Much more useful
% is the \setrannum command which sets a given counter to a random
% value within a specified range.  There are three parameters:
% \setrannum {<counter>} {<minimum>} {<maximum>}.  For example, to
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Alan G Isaac | 2 Mar 2009 23:02
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Re: random variables with latex

> 2009/3/2 Alan G Isaac <aisaac <at> american.edu>:
>> I do not know, but I'll guess that using LuaTeX would
>> make this trivial.

On 3/2/2009 4:10 PM Martin Schröder apparently wrote:
> pdfTeX can generate random numbers since 1.30.0

OK, I see it:
http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/NEWS

- pdfTeX can now generate random numbers:
     - \pdfuniformdeviate <count> generates a uniformly distributed random
       integer value between 0 (inclusive) and <count> (exclusive).
     - \pdfnormaldeviate expands to a random integer value with a mean of 0 and
       a unit of 65536.
     - \pdfrandomseed allows access to the current seed value.
     - \pdfsetrandomseed <count> sets the random seed to a specific value.

Alan

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Salvatore Vassallo | 2 Mar 2009 23:25
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Re: [pstricks] random variables with latex

azzam.hassan <at> voila.fr ha scritto in data lunedì 2 marzo 2009 20.15.12

> Hello
> How can one obtain random values (To be assignated to a given
> counter)with tex and/or latex or eventually with psticks?
> Thanks un advance
> 
> Cordialement
> Azzam HASSAN
> tel : 06 63 82 97 09

You can use also the lcg package
Salvatore

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Uwe Lück | 2 Mar 2009 22:45
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>Date: Mon,  2 Mar 2009 20:15:12 +0100 (CET)
>From: "azzam.hassan <at> voila.fr" <azzam.hassan <at> voila.fr>
>Subject: [MiKTeX] random variables with latex
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>How can one obtain random values (To be assignated to a given counter)with 
>tex and/or latex or eventually with psticks?

There are packages random and lcg, cf.

     http://www.ctan.org/pkg/random
     http://www.ctan.org/pkg/lcg

All the best,

     Uwe.

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Francisco Chaves | 3 Mar 2009 20:34
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TTF problem with xeLaTeX - MikTeX

Hi all

I am using a ttf with the command

\font\ocrb="OCR-B-10 BT" at 12pt

But when I compile the file with xelatex I have the following warnings:

** WARNING ** Unable to read OpenType/TrueType Unicode cmap table.
** WARNING ** Failed to load ToUnicode CMap for font "OCRB10PitchBT-Regular"

and then in the output file I have not text but empty boxes.

I compile the same file with XeLaTeX in a Mac OS X Leopard and it doesn't
have this problem.

Any idea?

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Paul, Brent S | 4 Mar 2009 03:17

FW: [Junk released by User action] Re: initexmf.EXE: No formats.ini exists

All,

	I solved the problem by reverting to version 2.6.  I'm not sure
who keeps track of bugs but there is something that changed between v2.6
and v2.7 that prevented it to run for me.  Thanks to all for your
comments.

Brent

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> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:48:50 -0500
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> Subject: [MiKTeX]  initexmf.EXE: No formats.ini exists
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