[Rivet] It's a rivet bug ... 90% sure

[Andy Buckley]

Hi Chris,

Which version of Rivet did you see this with? (Output of rivet --version)

I just did a similar test with some output from another test:

cp Rivet.aida with_underscore.aida
compare-histos with_underscore.aida
make-plots *.dat

and everything worked fine. The path element /with_underscore.aida/... 
does exist in the .dat files, but make-plots is apparently escaping it 
as it should.

The only things I can think of are that you have an old version of Rivet 
from before when we fixed this (1.6.0 should be safe;  my 
trunk-about-to-become-1.7.0 version certainly seems to be), or perhaps 
that you have a local custom setting of LATEXINPUTS or similar that 
means that underscore.sty is not visible to LaTeX? Rivet's setup script 
installs some LaTeX packages like that which sometimes aren't available 
on crappy SLC5, but if your LaTeX setup overwrites the Rivet part of the 
TeX path then you might be out of luck. This is fixable, though!

Hope that helps,
Andy


On 04/11/11 14:54, Christopher Lester wrote:
>
> I'm now 90% sure its a rivet bug ...
>
> At first I thought the problem was that Rivet didn't like the aida file
> to have the name [ANALYSIS].aida ... but I disproved that by checking I
> could rename other analyses' aida files without problem.
>
> What I have now found, is that the problem seems only to occur when I
> rename the aida file to have an underscore "_" in it.
>
> So:
>
> rivet-mkhtml Rivet.aida ; # Works!
>
> cp Rivet.aida Moo.aida
> rivet-mkhtml Moo.aia ; # Works!
>
> cp Rivet.aida Moo_moo.aida
> rivet-mkhtml Moo_moo.aia ; # Fails!
>
> #(blank plots)
>
> I hope that helps.
>
> Anyway, for the moment I now have a work around ...
>
> On Fri, 4 Nov 2011, Christopher Lester wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Attached are three identical files differing only in name. Rivet.aida
>> was generated from a rivet analysis called LESTER_TEST1. THe other two
>> files are just copies of the same Aida file, but with different names:
>> Moo.aida and LESTER_TEST1.aida.
>>
>> I find it very odd, then, that
>>
>> rivet-mkhtml Rivet.aida
>> rivet-mkhtml Moo.aida
>>
>> both work as expected (i.e. make sensible plots) but
>>
>> rivet-mkhtml LESTER_TEST1.aida
>>
>> makes "blank" plots ... i.e. goes through all the motions of producing
>> png and pdf files and a web page and all ... but makes all the plots
>> as uniform expanses of white canvas with nothing on.
>>
>> Is this a bug or a feature?
>>
>
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