Eric S Fraga <esflists@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wednesday,  7 Mar 2018 at 18:53, Jarmo Hurri wrote:
>> Tried this before: for some weird (?) reason I am getting the verbatim
>> output only. And ":exports results" produces blank.
>
> Very strange.  Attached are the org file I used to try this out and the
> result of exporting to LaTeX.

And when I export your a.org to LaTeX, I get the attached tex with a
verbatim environment only: