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It seems that ''The <tt>right'' </tt> and ''<tt>left'' </tt> alignments are swapped backwards from the usual directions in all commands that accept an <tt>align=</tt> option. For instance,

That's not a bug<texcode>\startalignment[left]This is some aligned text, but a backward compatibility feature, says Hanswith \type{align=left}.\stopalignment

Think \startalignment[right]This is some aligned text, with \type{align=right}.\stopalignment</texcode> produces <context>\startalignment[left]This is some aligned text, with \type{align=left}.\stopalignment \startalignment[right]This is some aligned text, with \type{align=right}.\stopalignment</context> Unfortunately, when Hans was first writing this part of ConTeXt, he was thinking of "ragged right/" and "ragged left" alignment, rather than "flush left" instead 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 now supports <tt>flushleft</tt> and <tt>flushright</tt> options, which do exactly the same thing, but in the "correct" direction. Thus: <texcode>\startalignment[flushleft]This is some aligned text, with \type{align=flushleft}.\stopalignment \startalignment[flushright]This is some aligned text, with \type{align=flushright}.\stopalignment</texcode> produces <context>\startalignment[flushleft]This is some aligned text, with \type{align=flushleft}.\stopalignment \startalignment[flushright]This is some aligned text, with \type{align=flushright}.\stopalignment</context> Incidentally, note that <cmd>leftaligned</cmd> and <cmd>rightaligned</cmd> also produce flush-left and flush-rightalignment, with <texcode>\leftaligned{This is some \type{leftaligned} text.}\rightaligned{This is some \type{rightaligned} text.}</left aligned"texcode> producing <context>\leftaligned{This is some \type{leftaligned} text.}\rightaligned{This is some \type{rightaligned} text.}</context>