Blank lines after org-mode code block results in LaTeX export

Question

Context I am embedding org-mode source code blocks and their results into my document and am exporting it to LaTeX. I usually wrap the output of my code into helper functions that generate formatted LaTeX code, for example equation environments or TikZ graphics.

Question Unfortunately I stumbled over blank lines after the results block leading to new paragraphs in the LaTeX document. Do you see a reasonin org-mode for this behauvior?

Related On StackOverflow there is a question regarding newline characters at the end of each python print invocation but this does not resolve the issue:

StackOverflow: Print to the same line and not a new line in python

Modifying the end paramter of print does only insert abc before the newline but is not replacing it.

print('\\begin{equation}c+d\\end{equation}', end='abc'),

Minimum working example:

#+TITLE: Blank lines after source block results on export
#+LaTeX_HEADER: \usepackage{lsthighlight}

* Example
In this example I would like to show that exporting a paragraph with
the embedded two source blocks
#+BEGIN_SRC python :exports results :results output latex
print('\\begin{equation}a+b\\end{equation}')
#+END_SRC
and
#+BEGIN_SRC python :exports results :results output latex
print('\\begin{equation}c+d\\end{equation}')
#+END_SRC
will result in blank lines after the result listing in the exported
LaTeX document.

LaTeX export:

\section{Example}
In this example I would like to show that exporting a paragraph with
the embedded two source blocks
\begin{equation}a+b\end{equation}

and
\begin{equation}c+d\end{equation}

will result in blank lines after the result listing in the exported
\LaTeX{} document.

Instead it should be exported as follows:

\section{Example}
In this example I would like to show that exporting a paragraph with
the embedded two source blocks
\begin{equation}a+b\end{equation}
and
\begin{equation}c+d\end{equation}
will result in blank lines after the result listing in the exported
\LaTeX{} document.

I really have no idea where to look for this issue. That's why I have the hope that you can help me with this. Thank you!

Answer 1

After looking under the hood of org-mode, here's what I'd suggest.

Comment out Line 1987 in the current/latest version ob-core.el, evaluate, test, and if you like what you see, don't forget to byte compile.

If you are using a different version of Org, the line is part of the function org-babel-where-is-src-block-result, and it reads as follows:

(unless beg (insert "\n") (backward-char))

If you want a cleaner solution, there is probably another function you could advise. But I'll leave you to find that; now you know where the newline comes from.

method

Maybe useful for you to know how I went about it. I dug into the export routines, starting with org-latex-export-as-latex, until I found the ob-core.el file. There are lots of newlines introduced there. To pinpoint which was responsible, I replaced each "\n" with some "N\n" (where N is a counting number) then reran the export.