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Andrew Lawson wrote 

>     I want to right-align a block of text, e.g. have
> the text left-aligned but the block right aligned. An
> ascii example would be
>
> |                                      |
> |                     Some text        |
> |                     More text        |
> |                     Even more text   |

I can't take credit for the following clever snippet of code:

\startalignment[left]
   \noindent\framed
     [width=fit,align=right,frame=off]
     {Some text\\More text\\Even more text}
\stopalignment