bug: org → docx writer loses whitespace when separated by #+latex keyword

[pank]

Hi,

Explain the problem.
Exporting from org, the docx writer seems to eat up too much white space between tables if there's a #+latex: line in between. It does not seem to happen with e.g. html.

Example:

$ cat test0.org 
* test0
| a | b |

| c | d |

$ cat test1.org 
* test1
| a | b |

#+latex:

| c | d |

$ pandoc test*.org -f org -t docx -o test.docx

The output is basically

test0

a	b

c	d

test1

a	b
c	d

But there shouldn't have been a difference between the two sections; both sections should have been like test0. See screenshot at end.

HTML and LaTeX exports work as expected (e.g. pandoc test*.org -f org -t {html,latex} --standalone).

Pandoc version?
pandoc v2.14.1 on GNU/Linux and Windows.

Thanks,
Rasmus

[brisad]

Adjacent tables need to be separated by an empty paragraph, which is done here:

pandoc/src/Text/Pandoc/Writers/Docx.hs

Lines 774 to 780 in 7f50324

	-- Word combines adjacent tables unless you put an empty paragraph between
	-- them. See #4315.
	separateTables :: [Block] -> [Block]
	separateTables [] = []
	separateTables (x@Table{}:xs@(Table{}:_)) =
	x : RawBlock (Format "openxml") "<w:p />" : separateTables xs
	separateTables (x:xs) = x : separateTables xs

The presence of a RawBlock that renders to nothing prevents the insertion of the paragraph.