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The basic commands are {{cmd|setupalign}} for the whole document, and {{cmd|startalignment}} for a given block. Additional [[:Category:Command/Alignment|alignment commands list]].
; Warning: ConTeXt uses <tt>flushleft</tt> and <tt>flushright</tt> options. The <tt>right</tt> and <tt>left</tt> alignments are '''backwards from the usual directions''' in all commands that accept an alignment option''', in the sense of "ragged left" and "ragged right". 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.
For instance:
