Thanks Nicolas,

What version of org-mode are you using? I recently updated to 9.3.6 and am fairly certain this issue is new.

I have not compared latex output from previous org-mode versions however description labels in previous org mode versions were treated correctly by xelatex(e.g bold font in a koma script article class). This stopped working after my upgrade which prompted me to look at the latex output.

The format you get creates a properly formatted pdf. 


  \begin{description}
  \item[{label}] information
  \end{description}  


Regards,
Matthew
  

On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 3:42 AM Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:
Hello,

Matthew Henderson <hendersonmpa@gmail.com> writes:

> The following list:
>
> - label :: information
>
> when exported to latex generates:
>
> \begin{description}
> \item{label} information
> \end{description}

FWIW, here I get

  \begin{description}
  \item[{label}] information
  \end{description}

Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou