[Rivet] Rivet documentation push & other remaining 1.1.2 issues

[Andy Buckley]

Hi y'all,

Time for me to hassle you all about documentation again: we want the
Rivet documentation for the approaching 1.1.2 release to be the best
it's ever been: we don't want to see any more complaints about bad
documentation, especially relating to getting started or plotting AIDA data!

Can everyone please take a look at the Doxygen pages, Wiki pages and the
unfinished LaTeX manual and do a bit of tidying and correcting, please?
I know documenting is a pain, but we're selling ourselves a bit short at
the moment, and it's easier to introduce new users if we can actually
point them at the documentation rather than having to say "Ah, the docs
are a bit crap; I'll spend the next hour talking you through it..."!


Otherwise, how are we doing for the 1.1.2 release? I have the following
issues on my informal list:

 * Fix AIDA division in new D0 analyses (I hate AIDA)
 * Make compare-histos script compare 2 MC AIDA files if no ref file
provided (needed for YETI)
 * Use Mac-compatible Python m4 macros (James)
 * Thread make-plots to speed it up a little (optional, but quick and
nice for YETI)

Any others?

Of course, it would also be nice to have lots of validator plots on the
Web, but I think Frank S is off for Christmas now, and I'm sure we can
get that sorted easily in January. The actual analysis validation is
done, and we have the data for regression testing of the 1.1.3 release
(which is nice because we really don't expect physics changes in that
release: it'll just be the rivetgun -> Python change + any bug fixes
that happen to take place at the same time)

Andy

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Dr Andy Buckley
Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology
Durham University
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