[Rivet] Rivet first use

Bijan Chokoufe Nejad bijan.chokoufe at gmail.com
Wed Nov 26 12:07:28 GMT 2014


Hi Holger,

I see. Maybe just clearify the dependencies on the installation wiki.

As I wanted to make the screen shot, I realized that there is a link to
be clicked *facepalm*.

Thanks for the quick response anyway,
Bijan

On 11/26/2014 11:58 AM, Holger Schulz wrote:
> On 26/11/14 10:35, Bijan Chokoufe Nejad wrote:
>> Hi all,
> Hi Bijan,
>>
>> I just installed Rivet the first time and used the bootstrap script.
>>
>> Given my HepMC files, I ran rivet according to
>> https://rivet.hepforge.org/trac/wiki/FirstRivetRun with the
>> OPAL_2001_S4553896 analysis.
>>
>> At first, it hung at rivet-mkhtml without clear indication what is going
>> wrong. By following the code, I finally found that it was due to missing
>> texlive-pstricks. Shouldn't a working latex installation be checked for
>> in the configure script? At least I assumed that it would.
> Rivet itself does not require latex, it's the plotting bit that needs it.
> There is some development to move away from using pstricks
> for plotting so I am not sure if a check for pstricks will be of high
> priority for future releases.
>>
>> Having fixed that I know see nice plots in
>> plots/OPAL_2001_S4553896/*.pdf but the index.html is rather empty:
>>
>> <html>
>> <head>
>> <title>Plots from Rivet analyses</title>
>> <style>
>>    html { font-family: sans-serif; }
>>    img { border: 0; }
>>    a { text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; }
>> </style>
>> <script type="text/x-mathjax-config">
>> MathJax.Hub.Config({
>>    tex2jax: {inlineMath: [["$","$"]]}
>> });
>> </script>
>> <script type="text/javascript"
>>
>> src="http://cdn.mathjax.org/mathjax/latest/MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS-MML_HTMLorMML">
>>
>> </script>
>> </head>
>> <body><h2>Plots from Rivet analyses</h2>
>> <h3><a href="OPAL_2001_S4553896/index.html"
>> style="text-decoration:none;">Four-jet angles using Durham algorithm
>> (OPAL_2001_S4553896)</a></h3>
>> <p><a
>> href="http://durpdg.dur.ac.uk/cgi-bin/spiface/hep/www?irn+4553896">Spires</a>
>>
>> | Eur.Phys.J.C20:601-615,2001| doi:10.1007/s100520100699
>> | arXiv:hep-ex/0101044</p>
>> <p style="font-size:smaller;">Angles between the leading (in energy)
>> four jets defined using the Durham algorithm with
>> $y_\mathrm{cut}=0.008$. The data is presented at the parton level and
>> includes the Bengtsson-Zerwas, Korner-Schierholz-Willrodt and
>> Nachtmann-Reiter angles as well as the angle between the two softest
>> jets.</p>
>> <br><p>Generated at Wednesday, 26. November 2014 11:11AM</p>
>> </body>
>> </html>
>>
>> No attempt to show the generated pngs? Any idea what is going wrong here?
> Would you mind sending me your output file and maybe a screenshot of
> your browser
> when opening index.html?
>>
>> Finally, a minor bug. Your link in the menu bar to Troubleshooting
>> doesn't work.
> Thanks, this is fixed now.
>>
>> Otherwise, keep it up! I really like the idea and plots of Rivet :).
> Thanks you :)
> 
> Holger
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Bijan Chokoufe Nejad
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>> DESY Theory Group
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