[Rivet] plotting of multi-weight curves in 3.0.0alpha1

[Andy Buckley]

Sounds like a good idea. Glad that it's working for you -- critical 
feedback is more than welcome!

Andy


On 28/01/16 13:08, Christian Gütschow wrote:
> Dear Rivet authors,
>
> thanks for providing a teaser release with multi-weight functionality.
> Very nice, I’ve been playing around with it all morning and it’s working
> well so far. :-)
>
> However, I do have one comment concerning the plotting macros: It looks
> like the different variations associated with a given prediction are
> currently plotted with the same colour, where the nominal prediction is
> in bold and the variations are semi-transparent.
>
> Now, that makes sense for tuning plots where one is comparing different
> generators and their variations, but this seems inappropriate in
> analyses where one often just wants to look at the (one) nominal
> prediction and its associated uncertainties.
>
> I’m sure in these cases the users would prefer to change the line
> colour/style of the variation curves and add them to the legend as well,
> so that one can quickly identify the dominant systematic variation. It
> seems the current macros are lacking the required functionality to
> achieve this, but I can imagine that this sort of use case will be
> frequent enough that we should provide some tools for this, no?
>
> I guess it would already help a lot if we could specify line properties
> in the plot file for certain curves/variations only, e.g. something like
>
> # BEGIN PLOT /BLAH/*[MUR0.5_MUF1_PDF261000]
> LineColor=blue
> LineStyle=dashed
> # END PLOT
>
> What do you reckon?
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
> --
>
>   Dr. Christian Gütschow
>
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>   Institut für Kern- und Teilchenphysik
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>
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Dr Andy Buckley, Lecturer / Royal Society University Research Fellow
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