Alignment
The alignment is a family of limitations in optimality theory demanding the domain of a feature to be extended to the edge of the constituent – the right edge, the left, or both edges. For example, the alignment is applied in such cases in language when a characteristic of nasality appears only at the left edge of a stem or root, or the right edge of a specific tone corresponds with the right edge of a syllable. A schema for limitations that aligns elements in two strings is called a generalized alignment. Regarding morphology, for instance, it controls the order of morphemes, demanding the edge of one constituent to coincide with another one, for example, the right edge of a reduplicant with the left edge of a base (thus, ensuring that the base is following the reduplicant) [Crystal, p. 19].
Text alignment is a word processing software feature allowing users to align text horizontally on a page or a document. It makes the composition of a text document possible by applying various text positioning on the entire or selected part of a page.
Text alignment places the cursor or aligns the text with the different margins of the document. Four different types of text alignment features can be distinguished:
Right alignment.
Each new line of the document starts on the right-most margin of the page.
Left alignment.
This is the default alignment in most word processing software. Each new document line starts on the left-most margin of the page.
Center alignment.
Each new line of the document starts on the center/middle margin of the page.
Justified alignment.
This type of alignment aligns text with right and left margins trying to fill as much space as possible [Technopedia].
Text alignment is a paragraph formatting tool determining the appearance of the text in an entire paragraph. For instance, the text is aligned with the left margin. In a justified paragraph, the text is aligned with both margins [Microsoft: Support].
⠀ Align or justify text. Microsoft: Support. Retrieved from: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/align-or-justify-text-b9096ed4-7323-4ff3-921a-1ba7ba31faf1.
⠀ David Crystal. (2008). A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 6th Edition. New-Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell.
⠀ Text Alignment. Technopedia. Retrieved from: https://www.techopedia.com/definition/5571/text-alignment.