Reply To: A tricky line formatting – Help required!!

I think what Chandru is trying to do is align the entire block flush left, but the block centers on the longest line.

That is, everything is flush left, but the block of type centers visually on the page.

Something like this:

                                   Line One
                                   Another line of Type

The lines are flush left but they center as a block on the text measure.

So far as I know there is no way to automatically do that, GREP or otherwise. I know years ago it could be done on the Penta and Miles systems, but those were unix-based.

I deal with poetry like this all the time, and it can’t be automatically done. You just have to figure out the space from the longest line to the outside margin, and add a left indent to the lines.