[Rivet] Proposals for make-plots

[Hendrik Hoeth]

Hi Frank,

> 1. If bin sizes are increasing along the x axis, then use LogX=1.
> Rationale: I often write a quick MC analysis and don't want to
> bother with setting all the plotting options. That's fine for
> x/y-labels and title, since I can guess them from the histo name.
> But for logarithmically binned x axes the histogram becomes not very
> nice to look at with LogX=0.

This shouldn't go into make-plots, but into compare-histos, since
make-plots isn't responsible for deciding how the plot looks like. It's
just for plotting. Not the place for magic. Besides that I doubt that
you'd really like this option. Just consider the two attached plots; bin
size increases, but I have the vague feeling that lin.pdf is preferred.

> 2. The dimensions of the .png files have recently been increased
> quite a bit by changing density=100 -> density=120 (in r2775). I
> don't care about the --png option, but for --pdfpng I would like to
> decrease them at least back to the original value, if not even
> further (e.g. back to the default of 72).

I'm all in for 100. In fact I didn't like that commit, either. But 72 is
too small in my opinion. I like to look at plots in detail on the
webpage, without having to open all of them, and only open those where I
want to have a really close look.

Cheers,

    Hendrik

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