Lambert's problem algorithms

A CRITICAL REVIEW

What is this project about?

This repository holds all the different files required to compile my original work named Lambert's problem algorithms: a critical review, were a deep comparison between modern routines for solving this classic astrodynamics problem is presented to the reader.

About project structure

The project is divided into different directories, each one devoted to store a particular type of information:

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├── asy
├── bib
├── bin
├── dat
├── fig
│   └── static
├── main.tex
├── Makefile
├── README.md
├── src
└── tex

Within the asy/ folder, all the scripts used for building the Asymptote based figures are located. Their output will be temporary stored in the fig/ directory and removed after the PDF file has been successfully compiled. Notice that the static/ sub-directory holds figures which are not supposed to be deleted after the cleaning process has been executed.

Regarding bib/, src/ and tex/ locations, they host all necessary style, bibliography and work content files. The main.tex file is the one used to control the rest of LaTeX files.

The bin/ and dat/ directories is where all binaries and databases used by them are saved.

Finally the Makefile is where all auxiliary rules for automation are described.

Required dependencies for building the project

Several programs are required to compile the project. The versions listed here are the ones originally used to build all files. It might be possible that with newer version, some of tools presented in the following lines are not able to produce expected results.

latexindent: a tool for formatting LaTeX files

3.8.3, 2020-11-06

XeLaTeX: the LaTeX engine used to compile the files

XeTeX 3.14159265-2.6-0.999992 (TeX Live 2020/Arch Linux)
kpathsea version 6.3.2
Compiled with ICU version 68.2; using 68.2
Compiled with zlib version 1.2.11; using 1.2.11
Compiled with FreeType2 version 2.10.4; using 2.10.4
Compiled with Graphite2 version 1.3.14; using 1.3.14
Compiled with HarfBuzz version 2.7.4; using 2.7.4
Compiled with libpng version 1.6.37; using 1.6.37
Compiled with poppler version 21.02.0
Compiled with fontconfig version 2.13.91; using 2.13.91

biber: it is used for building the project bibliography

biber version: 2.15

pdfTeX: the program used to render the output PDF file

pdfTeX 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.21 (TeX Live 2020/Arch Linux)
kpathsea version 6.3.2
Compiled with libpng 1.6.37; using libpng 1.6.37
Compiled with zlib 1.2.11; using zlib 1.2.11
Compiled with poppler version 21.02.0

asymptote: it is used for building all technical figures and drawings

Asymptote version 2.69 [(C) 2004 Andy Hammerlindl, John C. Bowman, Tom Prince]

ghostscript: the tool acting as PostScript interpreter, related with drawings

GPL Ghostscript 9.53.3 (2020-10-01)

Python: the programming language under which binaries are implemented

Python: 3.8.5

make: an utomatition for simplifying project building process

GNU Make 4.3
Built x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

How to build the report

After installing all the different dependencies, you can start by building a clean Python environment by running:

python -m venv .venv

which can be activated via source .venv/bin/activate. After that, install all the required libraries listed in the bin/requirements.txt using:

pip install -r bin/requirements.txt

Finally, you simply need to execute the following rule to obtain the rendered PDF:

make pdf