| Subject | English | German |
| comp., MS | ragged left | mit Flatterrand links (Of, relating to, or being lines of text whose left ends are not vertically aligned but form an irregular edge. Text may be right-justified and have a ragged left margin. Ragged-left text is used infrequently-typically, for visual effect in advertisements) |
| polygr. | ragged left | rechtsbündiger Flattersatz |
| gen. | ragged left alignment | linksbündiger Flattersatz |