[Rivet] make-plots (effectively) doesn't show dashed lines in --mc-errs mode

[Andy Buckley]

Hi all (but really Hendrik ;-) ),

If using make-plots with the error bars turned on (as happens if you run
compare-histos with the --mc-errs option, or rivet-mkhtml without any
option to cancel the --mc-errs default), then there is often no
distinction between solid and dashed lines of the same colour: see the
example PDF at http://users.hepforge.org/~buckley/d06-x03-y01.pdf

Is it possible to tweak make-plots' pstricks magic to start dashed line
patterns e.g. 1/3 of the way into the dash pattern so that the dash gap
will appear in each bin? Or something cleverer?

Andy

PS. On thinking about it, it's a bit inconsistent that compare-histos
shows a continuous line by default but rivet-mkhtml uses the mc-errs
setting by default. Any opposition to making rivet-mkhtml's default
behaviour the same as the compare-histos? I presume that Frank likes it
that way, since he wrote it, but there are a few reasons why it would be
more convenient for me if web pages made by other people with the
default settings made output with the continuous line style that's
suitable for high stats runs as presented in talks and papers!

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Dr Andy Buckley
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