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< [[Bugs and workarounds]] | [[FAQ]] >
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,
<context source="yes" text="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 now supports <tt>flushleft</tt> and <tt>flushright</tt> options, which do exactly the same thing, but in the "correct" direction'''. Thus:
<context source="yes" text="produces">
