---
name: "rivet-mkhtml"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "rivet"
version: "1.8.3-1.1"
release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/rivet-mkhtml"
---

# rivet-mkhtml(1)

Make web pages from histogram files written out by Rivet

## NAME

rivet-mkhtml - Make web pages from histogram files written out by Rivet

## SYNOPSIS

**rivet-mkhtml** \[*options*\] *\<aidafile1\>* \[*\<aidafile2\> \<aidafile3\>*...\]

## DESCRIPTION

Make web pages from histogram files written out by Rivet.  You can specify multiple Monte Carlo AIDA files to be compared in the same syntax as for compare-histos, i.e. including plotting options.

Reference data, analysis metadata, and plot style information should be found automatically (if not, set the RIVET\_ANALYSIS\_PATH or similar variables appropriately).

You can overwrite an existing output directory.

## OPTIONS

- **-h**, **--help**

  show this help message and exit

- **-o** OUTPUTDIR, **--outputdir**=*OUTPUTDIR*

  directory for webpage output

- **-t** TITLE, **--title**=*TITLE*

  title to be displayed on the main web page

- **-c** CONFIGFILES, **--config**=*CONFIGFILES*

  plot config file(s) to be used with compare-histos.

- **-s**, **--single**

  display plots on single webpage.

- **--no-ratio**

  don't draw a ratio plot under each main plot.

- **--mc-errs**

  plot error bars.

- **--refid**=*REF\_ID*

  ID of reference data set (file path for non-REF data)

- **-n** NUMTHREADS, **--num-threads**=*NUMTHREADS*

  request make-plots to use a specific number of threads.

- **--pdf**

  use PDF as the vector plot format.

- **--ps**

  use PostScript as the vector plot format.

- **--booklet**

  create booklet (currently only available for PDF with pdftk).

- **-i**, **--ignore-unvalidated**

  ignore unvalidated analyses.

- **--ignore-missing**

  ignore missing AIDA files.

- **-m** PATHPATTERNS, **--match**=*PATHPATTERNS*

  only write out histograms from analyses whose name matches any of these regexes

- **-M** PATHUNPATTERNS, **--unmatch**=*PATHUNPATTERNS*

  Exclude histograms whose $path/$name string matches these regexes

- **--palatino**

  Use Palatino as font (default).

- **--cm**

  Use Computer Modern as font.

- **--times**

  Use Times as font.

- **--minion**

  Use Adobe Minion Pro as font. Note: You need to set TEXMFHOME first.

- **-v**, **--verbose**

  Add extra debug messages

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Lifeng Sun \<lifongsun@gmail.com\> for the Debian system (but may be used by others).