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4-Participant
May 13, 2026
Question

Text to appear to left of ordered list

  • May 13, 2026
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For specific sections of my document, I need to text to appear to the left of an external list for certain list items. I have created a variablelist, but it doesn’t appear to be working.  I have used Arbortext for many years, but this is my first attempt without a pre-existing styler / dita structure.  A styler was applied to the document, but I am just learning how it works. 

4 replies

18-Opal
May 21, 2026

Two thoughts are, you could check out the sidebyside alignment below

https://support.ptc.com/help/arbortext/r8.3.1.0/en/index.html#page/styler/styler/help27579.html

or you could add a condition to the stylesheet that would cause the text to show up on the left, possibly using the outputclass attribute to trigger it, if you do not need it often.

 

Thanks

Bryon

Community Moderator
June 1, 2026

Hi ​@DC_14580417,

I wanted to see if you got the help you needed.

If so, please mark the appropriate reply as the Accepted Solution. It will help other members who may have the same question.
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Thanks,
Anurag 

4-Participant
June 1, 2026

No, that solution wasn’t applicable as I want the text to appear to the left of  a variety of ordered steps, not a section. 

4-Participant
June 1, 2026

But thank you though!!!!