Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] Random number primitives

2016-11-14 Thread Joseph Wright
On 14/11/2016 07:39, Akira Kakuto wrote: > Dear Joseph, > >> - \(pdf)uniformdeviate >> - \(pdf)normaldeviate >> - \(pdf)randomseed >> - \(pdf)setrandomseed >> (LuaTeX drops the 'pdf' part of the names.) > > H. Kitagawa, the author of eptex, has added > \pdfuniformdeviate > \pdfnormaldeviate > \pd

Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] Random number primitives

2016-11-13 Thread Joseph Wright
On 12/11/2016 23:50, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote: > Joseph Wright writes on > Sat, 12 Nov 2016 21:45:37 +: > >>> Both pdfTeX and LuaTeX include a series of primitives that expose a >>> lower-level pseudo-random number generator (I assume from C: there is >>> very little actual code in the pdfTeX

Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] Random number primitives

2016-11-12 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
Joseph Wright writes on Sat, 12 Nov 2016 21:45:37 +: >> Both pdfTeX and LuaTeX include a series of primitives that expose a >> lower-level pseudo-random number generator (I assume from C: there is >> very little actual code in the pdfTeX WEB source to implement these). Since all *TeX engines