[Rivet] SetBinLabel

[Andy Buckley]

Hi Frank,

Oh yes -- good point! I had programmatic specification of labels (or
more generally a new data type styled on map<string, Distribution>) in
mind, but indeed the desired visual effect can be achieved in make-plots
by explicit styling.

Andy


On 23/10/12 14:17, Frank Siegert wrote:
> Hi Sercan, Andy,
> 
> Maybe I misunderstand the question, but I think bin labels are already
> possible with the XCustomMajorTicks etc. options documented in
> http://rivet.hepforge.org/make-plots.html .
> Two examples would be
> http://rivet.hepforge.org/trac/browser/trunk/data/plotinfo/ATLAS_2011_I944826.plot
> http://rivet.hepforge.org/trac/browser/trunk/data/plotinfo/STAR_2006_S6860818.plot
> 
> Cheers,
> Frank
> 
> On 23 October 2012 12:56, Andy Buckley <andy.buckley at ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Not yet, no: the bins in Rivet are purely numeric. We'll be introducing
>> a distinct type for labelled bins eventually... I wish it could happen
>> sooner, but we have very little manpower available to do this (and we
>> tried ROOT as a replacement histogram system... too many problems)
>>
>> Andy
>>
>>
>> On 23/10/12 12:34, Sercan Sen wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Is there a way to set the bin labels (NOT axis label) of an histogram in Rivet ? i.e., SetBinLabel in ROOT.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Sercan
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