Batching with comments



On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 12:54:14PM -0400, George Leeman wrote:
> My style in using maxima is to produce files with both comments and maxima
> expressions.  The comments express the mathematical thought process, and the
> expressions help carry out the calculations required.  Is there a maxima
> command (which we might call "batchWithComments") which would read and then
> display both comments and expressions and evaluate the expressions?  The
> batch command omits the comments.

Nice question. I was thinking the same thing just a few days ago,
while writing up a calculation of vapor diffusion. It would be even
nicer if maxima could produce a nicely formatted PDF file from such an
input file.

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Daniel Lakeland
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