Re: Markdown to LaTeX: unwanted newlines around LaTeX environment

[John MACFARLANE <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>]

The dev version of pandoc will not give you a blank line
in this case -- it knows that equation environments can
occur inline.

+++ 'SBJ' via pandoc-discuss [Oct 03 17 09:51 ]:
>   It appears that the Markdown reader, as a rule, treats any unknown
>   environment as block-level content (rather than inline). While this
>   seems to be the desired behaviour, it has side effects when the output
>   format is (newline-sensitive) LaTeX. This was previously reported here:
>     * [1]https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/3309#issuecomment-284679731
>     * [2]https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/pandoc-discuss/latex$
>       20environment|sort:relevance/pandoc-discuss/P3fV_0jw9-U/DUpSrWYxaAk
>       J
>
>   This affects users wanting to create LaTeX documents in a convenient
>   fashion by first writing a Markdown file containing occasional LaTeX
>   environments, then converting to LaTeX and feeding the resulting LaTeX
>   into a pdflatex workflow. The extra newlines produced in this process
>   affect the LaTeX parsing, leading to unwanted (and inconsistent)
>   vertical space in the final document (see simple example below).
>   Is there a way to make Pandoc omit the newlines?
>   $ cat test.md
>   Testing environment
>   \begin{equation}
>       i^2=-1
>   \end{equation}
>   for whitespace.
>   $ pandoc -f markdown -t latex -o test.tex test.md
>   $ cat test.tex
>   Testing environment
>   \begin{equation}
>       i^2=-1
>   \end{equation}
>   for whitespace.
>   $ pandoc --version
>   pandoc 1.19.2.4
>   Compiled with pandoc-types 1.17.0.5, texmath 0.9.4.2, skylighting
>   0.1.1.5
>   [...]
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