Jean-Guy Marcil wrote:
"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.
Another possibility is to place each verse in a one-cell table. The
paragraph alignment of the text inside the cell should be Left. Click Table
AutoFit AutoFit To Contents. Then click Table Table Properties
Center. If you don't want the table's borders to be visible/printable, press
Ctrl+Alt+U.
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Regards,
Jay Freedman
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