Hello Eric and Nicolas,

I saw from Eric's email that he is using a newer Org release 9.3.7 (I was on 9.3.6).

I updated to 9.3.7 and exported via latex to pdf and it works perfectly now.

I should have checked for a newer release prior to posting my issue.....

Many thanks for your help,
Matthew


On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 9:58 AM Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
On Wednesday, 24 Jun 2020 at 09:46, Matthew Henderson wrote:
> What version of org-mode are you using? I recently updated to 9.3.6 and am
> fairly certain this issue is new.

I've just updated org on my system and description lists work just fine,
as Nicolas has indicated.

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: Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50, Org release_9.3.7-645-g945f49