Hello all,

The attached patch makes babel read description lists as lists of the
following format: (("term" "description") ...).  The present default is
to simply read in the text of each list item, yielding:
("term :: description" ...).

Of course, it’s possible to interconvert between the two formats, but I
think the greater structure of this proposal makes things easier for
babel authors.  (Another way of thinking of the proposal is that it
treats description lists like two-column tables.)

What do people think?

Thanks,

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Aaron Ecay