Tables: It is possible to inherit from 'set table' horizontal align only?

Questions
1 
#set table(align: horizon + start)

// Works fine, but since `start` is already specified in `#set`,
// I would prefer to not specify it once again.
#figure(
  table(
    columns: 2,
    table.header([Monday], [Tuesday]),
    align: top + start,

    [
      - Lorem ipsum
      - Lorem ipsum dolor
    ],

    [
      - Lorem ipsum
      - Lorem ipsum dolor
      - Lorem ipsum
      - Lorem ipsum dolor
    ]
  )
)

At the top of the document, I have

#set table(align: horizon + start)

And then somewhere in the middle of the document I have a table for which I prefer to use align: top + start.

Is it possible to make it inherit start from set table instead of specifying it once again? I tried

align: top + auto

but this produces an error.

2

I’m fairly confident that for alignment you have to repeat both parts. It probably has to do with implicit defaults. Like when you write top it implicitly adds a default center. So, no, not possible. I might be wrong as I never faced this or haven’t faced enough to be 100% sure.

To be honest, I think this applies to any type. stroke has the same story: you can’t just make it 2em + yellow and then somewhere set it to red and expect it to also be 2em. Although I haven’t tried this with stroke as dictionary, maybe if you set (paint: blue, thickness: 4pt), then you can preserve (thickness: 4pt) by specifying just (paint: red).

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What you can do is access the current table.align value to make the new value. For this you need a context:

#set table(align: horizon + start)

#figure(
  context table(
    columns: 2,
    table.header([Monday], [Tuesday]),
    align: top + table.align.x,
    [
      - Lorem ipsum
      - Lorem ipsum dolor
    ],

    [
      - Lorem ipsum
      - Lorem ipsum dolor
      - Lorem ipsum
      - Lorem ipsum dolor
    ]
  )
)

@Andrew for stroke I just checked and it turns out each value is inherited! (see documentation here). For example:

#set line(length: 1cm, stroke: (paint: blue, thickness: 4pt))
#line()

#set line(stroke: red)
#line()

image

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