When we define a list in Asciidoctor we usually have a list item that is a paragraph. But if we want to have a block as list item we need to add an extra element to make sure the block is parsed correctly as list item. Because a list item starts with a . or a * at the beginning of a line and a block also is defined on the beginning of the line, we must add the extra element. Together with the list item continuation (+) we can have a list with blocks.

In the following example we define a numbered list with three listing blocks:

= Simple steps

We need to type the following commands to generated a HTML version
of our Asciidoctor source document:

. {blank}
+
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$ asciidoctor sample.adoc
$
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. {blank}
+
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$ ls
sample.adoc      sample.html
$
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. {blank}
+
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$ open sample.html
$
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When we generate a HTML version we get the following result:

Written with Asciidoctor 1.5.6.1.