dear George,
maybe demo(..) is your friend.
Another possibility is (using wxMaxima 0.7.2) to use the menu point 'read file'.
Third I often write a comment before the command at one input line e.g.:
(%i1) /* calculate square root of 2 and give their numerical value: */
sqrt(2), numer
(%01) 1.414 ..
HTH Wolfgang
"George Leeman" <george.leeman at sbcglobal.net> schrieb:
> 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.