[Jean-Guy Marcil[_2_]]

"Silfver" wrote:

I want to place text centered in book pages, but still want to have the
bodytext left aligned in the middle of the pages.

Not centered row by row. Rather centered vers by vers; text by text; poem by
poem...

It is for layout of poem texts with varying row-lengths of the verses


I think you better post a sample of what you want... I am having some
difficulties undesrtanding what left-aligned-centered text is like.

If you mean that you want each verse left aligned, but with an indent to
give the illusion that it is centered based on the average length of the
lines in the verse, then you need to manually apply a left indent to each
verse, there is no way to automatically achieve that. I guess you could
center-align the whole verse, note down the space between the margin and the
position of the first character of the longest line in the verse. Remove the
center alignement and apply a left indent equal to the space you just noted
down.