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+# Example Analyses and Custom Scales for HEJ
+
+This directory contains a number of examples for HEJ analyses and
+custom scale settings. Their usage is explained on
+https://hej.hepforge.org/doc/current/user/analyses.html and
+https://hej.hepforge.org/doc/current/user/scales.html
+See the individual files for details.
+
+## Compilation
+
+The examples are compiled automatically together with the rest of HEJ,
+see https://hej.hepforge.org/doc/current/user/installation.html for
+instructions. The compiled libraries are saved in the `examples`
+subdirectory of the build directory.
+
+To include examples requiring ROOT, you have to add
+`-DEXCLUDE_ROOT=False` to the `cmake` command used to compile HEJ. You
+can specify the ROOT installation directory with
+`-DROOT_DIR=/directory/containing/ROOTConfig.cmake/`.
+
+It may also be necessary to preload the ROOT core library when running
+HEJ or HEJFOG with a ROOT-based analysis:
+
+```sh
+LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/libCore.so HEJ config.yml eventfile
+```