In HTML, the reversed attribute on a <ol> tag reverses the numbering in the ordered list. The items themselves are not reversed; it‘s just the numbering.
(2) in relation to left and right. I would dispute that I might think the ordered placing of objects in the hierarchy to be "authoritarian". Fortunately, as Vince's examples show, Stata allows fine-grained control of the axis placement, allowing one to modify the defaults. I now have a...