: Horizontally centering left aligned text visually on multiple pages I am working on a book of poems. I need to make sure that the (left aligned) text running within each page is centred on

@Holmes874

As joojaa’s comment says, this is scriptable. If your book isn’t too long and you don’t mind doing it manually for each page, though, this is probably an easier way.

It seems to me what you’re looking for is a way to centre the entire block that the text falls within, while maintaining the text itself left-aligned. The easiest way to do this would be to simply make the containing text frame the same width as the longest line on the page.

For example, starting off with a page like this (poetry courtesy of this page):



If you select the text frames, you can adjust their widths to be the same as the longest line of text they contain. Since this is all poetry and there is no paragraph composing going on, I’ve made all my text here “No Break” in the paragraph style—that way, instead of manually dragging the side of the text frame to make the frame the right width, I can simply double-click on the width handle, and it auto-fits the frame width to its content (= the longest line):



Now it’s just a matter of centring the text frame on the margins (or the page, if you prefer):



And then you have things centred on the page without affecting the text alignment in each frame.

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