On Tue, 2 Oct 2012, Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm just curious:
>
> I tried to apply align specification to \b/e-TABLE, inframed, 
> \start/stop-alignment and \start/stop-tabulate:
>
> ----
> \setupbodyfont[11pt]
>
> \starttext
> \bTABLE
>   \setupTABLE[width=4cm,align=middle]
>   \setupTABLE[column][1][align=left]
>   \setupTABLE[column][4][align=right]
>   \bTR
>     \bTD ali=L\eTD
>     \bTD B\eTD
>     \bTD \inframed[width=1.5cm,align=left]{ali=L}\eTD
>     \bTD ali=R\eTD
>   \eTR
> \eTABLE
>
> \startalignment[left]
>   \input tufte
> \stopalignment
>
> \starttabulate[|pl|pc|pr|]
>   \NC ali=L \input tufte\NC\input tufte\NC ali=R \input tufte\NC\NR
> \stoptabulate
> \stoptext
> ----
>
> The text aligned by "align=left" inside TABLE cell, inside \inframed and 
> inside \startalignment is aligned to the right border of the "bounding box" 
> (ragged left).
>
> The text aligned by "align=left" inside \start/stop-tabulate is aligned to 
> the left edge of the "bounding box".

That is not align=left but the `l` key. Read it as leftflushed :)

> I must admit than tabulate's behavior seems more natural to me, but this may 
> be just my point of view.
>
> Anyway, why the behavior of alignment specification is different for 
> {\b/e-TABLE, \inframed, \start/stop-alignment} and {\start/stop-tabulate}?
>
> Wouldn't be nice to unite it?

This is for historic reasons, (I think that there is a wiki FAQ on this). 
The easiest solution is to forget about left and right and use leftflushed 
and rightflushed.

Aditya