Ooops, sorry, I just haven't used perl in a while ... and I realised that this task is easy as pie in perl.

I cannot believe I was doing this semi-manually in vim the other day. I wasted hours of repetitive keying. I've been too long away from perl-land.

I include it for anybody stumbling in (still a bit messy, mind you, only the essentials...) 
#!/usr/bin/perl

$fname = shift @ARGV;
open(fi,"<$fname");
@text = <fi>;
close fi;

# First, the header of the latex
print("
\\documentclass{article}
\\usepackage{graphicx}
\\usepackage{fullpage}
\\begin{document}
");

while (@text) {
        $imfile = shift @text;
        chop($imfile);
        print("
        \\section{$imfile}

        \\begin{figure}[!hbp]
        \\centerline{\\includegraphics[width=9cm, height=9cm]{ims/$imf
+ile"."_gd.png}}
        \\end{figure}

        \\begin{figure}[!hbp]
        \\centerline{\\includegraphics[width=12cm, height=9cm]{$imfile
+"."mfm.png}}
        \\end{figure}

        \\newpage

        \n");
}

# And now the tail
print("
\\end{document}
\n");

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In reply to Re^2: repetitive latex doc: in vim or perl? by stabu
in thread repetitive latex doc: in vim or perl? by stabu

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