On 2013–06–06 honyk wrote:

> I'd like to type two blocks of text with different 'align' settings side by
> side.

Here's one way to do it:

\setupframed
  [offset=1ex,
   width=8cm,
   frame=off]

\starttext
  \placesidebyside
    {\startframed[align={normal,left}]  \input knuth\par\stopframed}
    {\startframed[align={normal,right}] \input knuth\par\stopframed}
\stoptext

Marco