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