I do not understand this behaviour of startalignment [middle]...stopalignment versus midaligned. According to the manual the contents should be centered in the middle. Although text is centered, a combinations is not centered but stays at the leftmargin. Is there something I do not understand or is the behaviour of the startaligment environment erroneous? Example (behaviour is in the caption): \useexternalfigure[picture][somepicturefile] \starttext \startalignment[middle]\startcombination[1*1]{\externalfigure [picture]}{startalignment combination not centered} \midaligned{\startcombination[1*1]{\externalfigure[picture]} {midaligned combination centered}\stopcombination}\stopalignment \blank \startalignment[middle]startalignment text centered\stopalignment \stoptext Hans van der Meer