[Rivet] [Rivet-svn] r3770 - trunk/bin

[Andy Buckley]

On 26/06/12 14:57, Hendrik Hoeth wrote:
> Hi Holger,
> 
> I've got a question about your SkipBins commit:
> 
>> +      # Skip every nskip bin when drawing -- helps to circumvent
>> +      # 'TeX capacity exceeded' error on some large plots
>> +      if headers.has_key("SkipBins"):
>> +          nskip = int(headers["SkipBins"])
>> +          if ibin%nskip ==0:
>> +              continue
> 
> Doesn't our data/texmf/cnf/texmf.cnf fix this already? Or what kind of
> monster histogram is this?

I just asked the same question on the ATLAS side of this analysis
implementation! I'm definitely more in favour of tweaking the TeX memory
config than building in an ad hoc keyword to skip every nth bin, unless
it's *really* unavoidable...

Andy

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