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

[Christopher Lester]

Having done:

bash-3.2$ export 
TEXINPUTS=$TEXINPUTS:/atlas/lester/usr/local/share/Rivet/texmf/tex/:
bash-3.2$ echo $TEXINPUTS
.:/usr/share/texmf/tex//:/usr/share/texmf/bibtex//:/usera/lester/LESTERHOME/proj/latex:/usera/lester/LESTERHOME/proj/papers/STYLES//:/atlas/lester/usr/local/share/Rivet/texmf/tex/:
bash-3.2$


to the env as previously submitted to you, then
I find that both

rivet-mkhtml Rivet.aida

and

rivet-mkhtml Rivet_moo.aida

perform equally successfully - both make non-blank plots.

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So that's good!

So did I do something wrong in my installation?  I've had another look at

http://projects.hepforge.org/rivet/trac/wiki/GettingStarted

and I don't see any bits that I missed that would have made me 
check/alter my TEXINPUTS path ....  is there some missing 
documentation there?  Given that Rivet.aida make beautiful plots, it 
would have  taken me a long time (without your expert help) to track 
down the fault to missing TEXINPUTS path ...

Thanks for your help!

On Thu, 10 Nov 2011, Frank Siegert wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> On 10/11/11 19:20, Christopher Lester wrote:
>> 
>> $LATEXINPUTS is blank, but I do have a semi-custom $TEXINPUTS
>> 
>> bash-3.2$ echo $TEXINPUTS
>> .:/usr/share/texmf/tex//:/usr/share/texmf/bibtex//:/usera/lester/LESTERHOME/proj/latex:/usera/lester/LESTERHOME/proj/papers/STYLES//
>
> If I'm not mistaken, this should include ${prefix}/share/Rivet/texmf/tex/ and 
> end with a ":". Could you try whether that helps?
>
> Best,
> Frank
>
>
>
>
>> 
>> 
>> My full env is attached as moo.txt.
>> 
>> Also attached are success.tgz containing Rivet.aida and the plots dir
>> made from it, and failure.tgz containing Rivet_moo.aida, and the
>> (failed, blank) plots made from it.
>> 
>> (rm -rf plots was done between runs)
>> 
>> 
>>> 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?
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -------------------------------------
>>>> Christopher Lester 01223 690509
>>>> 59 Mulberry Close, Cambridge, CB4 2AS
>>>> -----------------------------------------------------
>>>> Dr Christopher Lester Tel: +44 (0)1223 337232
>>>> Room 952, Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory
>>>> JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, United Kingdom
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Dr Andy Buckley
>>> SUPA Advanced Research Fellow
>>> Particle Physics Experiment Group, University of Edinburgh
>>> 
>>> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
>>> Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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>> Christopher Lester 01223 690509
>> 59 Mulberry Close, Cambridge, CB4 2AS
>> -----------------------------------------------------
>> Dr Christopher Lester Tel: +44 (0)1223 337232
>> Room 952, Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory
>> JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, United Kingdom
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