On 11 Apr 2016, at 18:13, Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr<mailto:alan.braslau@cea.fr>> wrote:

Would it not be better to use ConTeXt alignment, rather than the TeX
primitives \hfil and \hfill?

\startframedtext[left][frame=on,offset=0pt,width=broad,align=flushleft]
left
\stopframedtext

Could be of course. But the question is: from where the counterintuitive behavioud of \hfil and \hfil?
It is my nature to be not satisfied until I know ;-)

Hans van der Meer