[Rivet] rivet-mkhtml config file

[Frank Siegert]

Hi Giancarlo,

I think it wouldn't work like this, but please correct me if you have
tested this and I misremember.

The config files used by rivet-mkhtml and rivet-cmphistos are similar
to the ones we have in the distribution, i.e. they contain blocks
like:

# BEGIN PLOT /MC_ZINC/Z_pT$
Title=Z $p_\perp$
XLabel=$p_\perp^{\text{Z}}$ [GeV]
YLabel=$\text{d}\sigma/\text{d}p_\perp^{\text{Z}}$ [pb/GeV]
LogX=1
LegendXPos=0.05
LegendYPos=0.5
# END PLOT

The ones used by make-plots are meant to allow overwriting properties
within a "final" .dat file, i.e. they contain blocks like
(https://rivet.hepforge.org/make-plots.html#_configuration_files):

# BEGIN PLOT figures/MC_WJETS/W_mass.dat
XMin=60.0
XMax=100.0
LegendXPos=0.65
# END PLOT

.*myLOrun.yoda/D0_2008_S7554427/d01-x01-y01::Scale=1.0

(where the first would be on the plot level, and the second on the line level)


It would be nice to streamline all of this in the future, and there
are efforts to rewrite make-plots etc. also to make use of matplotlib
or similar. But I don't think this is very advanced yet, because there
is not enough person power to drive it forward. Do let us know if you
want to get involved in that area!

Best,
Frank



On 28 February 2018 at 11:15, Giancarlo Panizzo
<giancarlo.panizzo at cern.ch> wrote:
> Dear rivet authors,
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> I would like to let rivet-mkhtml pass a config file to make-plots through the "-c" command line option.
>
> While the option is correctly passed to cmp-histos, this seems not to be the case for the last make-plots command, launched internally by rivet-mkhtml. This in turn seems to basically cause rivet-mkhtml to ignore such config file parameter.
>
> What I would propose is to replicate somehow the lines
>
> ## Pass rivet-mkhtml -c args to rivet-cmphistos
> 261     for configfile in opts.CONFIGFILES:
> 262         configfile = os.path.abspath(os.path.expanduser(configfile))
> 263         if os.access(configfile, os.R_OK):
> 264             ch_cmd += ["-c", configfile]
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> also after line 452, of course replacing ch_cmd -> mp_cmd.
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> I hope this will help (at least it fixes the issue for me), and of course thanks for your efforts in developing such a successfull project!
>
> Best
>
> Giancarlo Panizzo
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