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Script to add backslashes to end of certain lines of text

I'd like to write up notes in a relatively readable format and then use a shell script to add LaTeX formatting. Specifically, I'm trying to figure out how to add the LaTeX newline character (\\) to the end of lines without \begin{} or \end{} statements

example notes file:
\begin{enumerate}
-- first note
\begin{itemize}
-- first sub-note that spans multiple lines
so new line characters would be really nice
otherwise this gets a bit hard to read
-- second sub-note
\end{itemize}
(lather, rise, repeat)
\end{enumerate}

So far I am using sed to change -- to \item and then using a LaTeX wrapper file to add header info and pdf it:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
# inputs: $1 - input notes file name (txt file)
#            $2 - output file name (pdf)

sed 's:--:\\item:g' $1 > tmpNotes.tex
# Need code to add \\ to end of text lines!

sed 's:INPUTFILE:tmpNotes.tex:' wrapper.tex > tmpWrapper.tex
pdflatex -nonstopmode tmpWrapper.tex 
mv tmpWrapper.pdf $2.pdf

Can someone tell me how to add \\ to only the text lines (that is, all lines without \begin{} or \end{})?
Thanks!

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maruku

MARUKU(1)						      General Commands Manual							 MARUKU(1)

NAME

       maruku - converts markdown files to various output

SYNOPSIS

       maruku [options] [file1.md [file2.md ...]]

DESCRIPTION

       maruku is a markdown interpreter: it accepts files written in the markdown language and transforms them into HTML, TeX of PDF (using pdfla-
       tex). If no file is given on the command-line, maruku acts as a filter and converts standard input to standard output.

OPTIONS

       -v, --[no-]verbose
	      Run verbosely

       -u, --[no-]unsafe
	      Use unsafe features

       -b     Break on error

       -i, --math-images ENGINE
	      Uses ENGINE to render TeX to PNG.

       -m, --math-engine ENGINE
	      Uses ENGINE to render MathML

       -o, --output FILE
	      Output filename

       --pdf  Creates PDF output using pdflatex. Please see the NOTE below.

       --s5   Write S5 slideshow

       --html Write HTML output.

       --html-frag
	      Write the contents of the BODY.

       --tex  Write LaTeX

       --inspect
	      Shows the parsing result

       --version
	      Show version

SEE ALSO

       marutex(1) pdflatex(1).

NOTE

       An important note for debian users: to prevent a lightweight library such as libmaruku-ruby to pull in  heavy  dependencies  like  texlive,
       libmaruku-ruby  does  not  depend on texlive (but only recommends it). This means that if you do not install texlive, you will not have PDF
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AUTHOR

       maruku was written by Andrea Censi <andrea@rubyforge.org>.

       This manual page was written by Vincent Fourmond <fourmond@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								   May 27, 2007 							 MARUKU(1)

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