[Rivet] HepMC in human readable format

[Hannes Jung]

Dear Andy et al

thanks a lot for your reply.

It's really fascinating, how complicated and difficult very trivial things are in Rivet.
It must be a MUST, that one can print out the HEPMC record in a readable format...
but it seems I can only get it via 
event.genEvent().print()
but then the format is cryptic.

How do you people check, if selections etc are correct, if there is no way to printout
what comes from the MC ?

It would be really very good if this could be provided.... I tried to do it, but failed
due to my ignorance in the Rivet structure... so if anyone can help there, I would
be really, really very happy....

I try to promote Rivet for our summer-students.... so.........

Thanks a lot

cheers
Hannes

On 07.08.2012, at 17:07, Andy Buckley wrote:

> It's really a HepMC thing: Rivet doesn't include any special printout
> formatting for GenEvents. The best I can think of offhand is, if you
> have a Particle p, to use p.genParticle().print(). Any other HepMC
> library function can also be used on the p.genEvent() reference.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Andy
> 
> 
> On 07/08/12 15:18, Hannes Jung wrote:
>> Dear Rivet developers
>> 
>> I was wondering, whether there is an easy way to print out the HepMC
>> record in human readable format within Rivet, so that one can see
>> directly the event one is analyzing ?
>> 
>> Probably I have just not found the proper place, where this is
>> described... any hint would be great...
>> 
>> thanks a lot
>> 
>> cheers
>> Hannes
>> 
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