[Rivet] histogram legend with spaces and other characters

[Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli]

HI Andy, 

Yeah it was a specific case i guess. I think its fine the way it is. you guys just need better patient users ;) ha ha

Cheers
Raghav


> On May 23, 2016, at 5:35 PM, Andy Buckley <a.g.buckley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I know why... it's LaTeX so you need to escape % signs as \% otherwise you start a comment in the intermediate source file. I guess your command is creating a comment that breaks some matching of begin/end block commands and hence latex hangs (even though we're running it in non-interactive mode).
> 
> Not sure if we can (or should) protect against that! But it would be nice to fail more helpfully than hanging...
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
> On 23/05/16 16:30, Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli wrote:
>> I just tried that it make-plots just hangs :(
>> 
>> [rkunnawa at lxplus025 BKG]$ ls
>> 0_20_wRecoils.yoda  0_20.yoda  50_100_wRecoils.yoda  50_100.yoda plots
>> pp.yoda  run.sh
>> [rkunnawa at lxplus025 BKG]$ rivet-mkhtml pp.yoda
>> 0_20_wRecoils.yoda:"0-20%, w/ Recoils" 0_20.yoda:"0-20%"
>> 50_100_wRecoils.yoda:"50-100% w/ Recoils" 50_100.yoda:"50-100%"
>> Making 7 plots
>> and i tried to stop it with Ctrl-C
>> ^CTraceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/afs/cern.ch/work/r/rkunnawa/JEWEL/local/bin/rivet-mkhtml
>> <http://cern.ch/work/r/rkunnawa/JEWEL/local/bin/rivet-mkhtml>", line
>> 434, in <module>
>>     Popen(mp_cmd).wait()
>>   File
>> "/cvmfs/sft.cern.ch/lcg/releases/LCG_84/Python/2.7.10/x86_64-slc6-gcc48-opt/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py
>> <http://sft.cern.ch/lcg/releases/LCG_84/Python/2.7.10/x86_64-slc6-gcc48-opt/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py>",
>> line 1384, in wait
>>     pid, sts = _eintr_retry_call(os.waitpid, self.pid, 0)
>>   File
>> "/cvmfs/sft.cern.ch/lcg/releases/LCG_84/Python/2.7.10/x86_64-slc6-gcc48-opt/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py
>> <http://sft.cern.ch/lcg/releases/LCG_84/Python/2.7.10/x86_64-slc6-gcc48-opt/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py>",
>> line 476, in _eintr_retry_call
>>     return func(*args)
>> KeyboardInterrupt
>> [rkunnawa at lxplus025 BKG]$ dvips: ! DVI file can't be opened.
>> dvips: ! DVI file can't be opened.
>> dvips: ! DVI file can't be opened.
>> dvips: ! DVI file can't be opened.
>> convert: no decode delegate for this image format
>> `/tmp/rkunnawa/magick-ohQ9yH7y' @ error/constitute.c/ReadImage/532.
>> convert: missing an image filename `JetMass.png' @
>> error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3015.
>> convert: no decode delegate for this image format
>> `/tmp/rkunnawa/magick-_fcqD62y' @ error/constitute.c/ReadImage/532.
>> ....
>> GPL Ghostscript 8.70: ERROR -12 closing pdfwrite device. See
>> gs/src/ierrors.h for code explanation.
>> 
>> 
>>> On May 23, 2016, at 5:22 PM, Andy Buckley <a.g.buckley at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:a.g.buckley at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Raghav,
>>> 
>>> You can give arbitrary histogram names on the command line like this:
>>> 
>>> rivet-mkhtml a.yoda:A b.yoda:"Histo B" c.yoda:'$\mathcal{C}$'
>>> 
>>> where the labels get increasingly silly from left to right. This is
>>> just a convenient way of setting the Title attribute in each HISTOGRAM
>>> block in the .dat files: those are used in the legend, while the Title
>>> of the PLOT block (if given) is written at the top of the plot.
>>> 
>>> Andy
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 23/05/16 13:26, Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli wrote:
>>>> Hi Rivet Experts,
>>>> 
>>>> Its me again :)
>>>> 
>>>> I have a question regarding histogram legends in the plot. At the
>>>> moment, if we dont give a specific title, then the name of the yoda
>>>> file is taken as the legend. Even if i try to give a different title,
>>>> it has to be one without any spaces or special characters. for
>>>> example i have a histogram that i ideally want to label
>>>> 0-20%, w/ recoils
>>>> but this wont get accepted now and make-plots just crashes. I have to
>>>> say it like so 0_20_wRecoils and that works. Is there a way i can
>>>> give my custom legend to the histogram. I see that you can give a
>>>> custom legend in the make plot documentation page, but it looks like
>>>> its only for the plot as opposed to a specific histogram?
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Raghav
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>>> 
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>>> Dr Andy Buckley, Lecturer / Royal Society University Research Fellow
>>> Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Glasgow
>> 
> 
> 
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> Dr Andy Buckley, Lecturer / Royal Society University Research Fellow
> Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Glasgow