Material developed for the AST400A course at the Department of
Astronomy and Steward Observatory of the University of Arizona (Fall
semester 2024/Spring semester 2025).
For students at the University of Arizona only: d2l website
The lecture notes are written as org files available in ./org-content
and exported to html (available online here, the output of the export
also relies on the css and html templates in ./html-content), and in
pdf for printing and annotating before I give a lecture.
The script build.sh is the main script to build the website. It first
checks if the flag all was passed as an argument, in which case it
will build all the org files, otherwise it will look for the org-files
that have been modified and only build those.
The script actually calls emacs to do the build (with -Q flag so the
process does not depend on my specific emacs configuration), which is
run by build.sh in script mode to run the elisp script build-site.el.
build-site.el checks for the htmlize and ox-publish packages, and
installs them locally if they are not available, then exports to html
the appropriate files (either all the org files or the ones modified
since the last commit) to the folder html-content, and hands back the
control to build.sh, which finishes things by pushing to this repo and
rsync the html files from the server where I host the website (this is
just because the server is very old and I cannot have a modern version
of emacs to build directly there).
Each semester’s website is archived as a release. The Fall 2024 semester corresponds to release v1.0.