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The basic commands are {{cmd|\setupalign}} for the whole document, and {{cmd|startalignment}} for a given block.
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The basic commands are {{cmd|setupalign}} for the whole document, and {{cmd|startalignment}} for a given block.
  
 
'''The <tt>right</tt> and <tt>left</tt> alignments are backwards from the usual directions''' in all commands that accept an alignment option.  For instance,  
 
'''The <tt>right</tt> and <tt>left</tt> alignments are backwards from the usual directions''' in all commands that accept an alignment option.  For instance,  

Revision as of 10:20, 10 June 2020

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The basic commands are \setupalign for the whole document, and \startalignment for a given block.

The right and left alignments are backwards from the usual directions in all commands that accept an alignment option. For instance,

\setuppapersize[A5]
\startalignment[left]
This is some aligned text, with \type{left} alignment.
\stopalignment

\framed[align=right,width=\textwidth]{Some framed text, with \type{align=right}.}

produces

Unfortunately, when Hans was first writing this part of ConTeXt, he was thinking of "ragged right" and "ragged left" alignment, rather than "flush left" and "flush right". And now that it's been this way a while, it's impossible to change it, because changing it would break backward compatibility with all of the existing documents that use it.

If you'd rather not try to remember that it's backwards, ConTeXt supports flushleft and flushright options, which do exactly the same thing, but in the "correct" direction. Thus:

\setuppapersize[A5]
\startalignment[flushleft]
This is some aligned text, with \type{flushleft} alignment.
\stopalignment

\framed[align=flushright,width=\textwidth]{Some framed text, with \type{align=flushright}.}

produces

Incidentally, note that \leftaligned and \rightaligned produce flush-left and flush-right alignment, with

\setuppapersize[A5]
\leftaligned{This is some \type{leftaligned} text.}
\rightaligned{This is some \type{rightaligned} text.}

producing