Pandoc adds extra paragraph breaks

Question

I use pandoc to convert Markdown to Latex. My problem is that pandoc adds extra paragraph breaks around begin/end environments.

Source:

**First** phrase in a paragraph.
\begin{multline*}
some long formulae
\end{multline*}
Second phrase in a paragraph.

Doing pandoc my.md -o my.tex yields:

\textbf{First} phrase in a paragraph.

\begin{multline*}
some long formulae
\end{multline*}

Second phrase in a paragraph.

Clearly this is inappropriate behavior due to extra vertical space put by latex in resulting PDF when it sees extra blank lines around multline.

Is there a way to suppress extra blank lines in .tex output of pandoc?

Answer 1

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Modification:

**First** phrase in a paragraph.
\empty{
\begin{multline*}
some long formulae
\end{multline*}
}
Second phrase in a paragraph.

parses to

\textbf{First} phrase in a paragraph. \empty{
\begin{multline*}
some long formulae
\end{multline*}
} Second phrase in a paragraph.

Answer 2

What about:

**First** phrase in a paragraph. \begin{multline*}
some long formulae
\end{multline*} Second phrase in a paragraph.

pandoc -t latex with the above input and pandoc 2.2.1 gives:

\textbf{First} phrase in a paragraph. \begin{multline*}
some long formulae
\end{multline*} Second phrase in a paragraph.