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# kCMTextMarkupAlignmentType_Left

An alignment type that visually aligns text from left-to-right.

```
let kCMTextMarkupAlignmentType_Left: CFString
```

## Discussion

For horizontally written text, the text alignment is always visually left-aligned (the system uniformly treats left-to-right and right-to-left). For vertical text, [`kCMTextMarkupAlignmentType_Left`](/documentation/CoreMedia/kCMTextMarkupAlignmentType_Left) is equivalent to [`kCMTextMarkupAlignmentType_Start`](/documentation/CoreMedia/kCMTextMarkupAlignmentType_Start).

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