Text mode viewport center alignment option?

Scripting
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Hello! I apologise if this topic has been mentioned before, I couldn’t find anything related.

I am trying to write a script that would center align blocks of texts in the viewport in text mode, as if I understand correctly, it is only possible to left align it now, on top of the writing directions options. I have read the documentation, and if I can find a “textAlign” value in Robofont for the SpaceCenter, I am not able to find a similar option for Glyphs. It would be incredibly useful for me to have this feature, and I was wondering if it was on my part or if it is not possible to do that, and if it isn’t, if there is a way it could be implemented.

Thank you very much!

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Right now, this is not really possible. But you could fake it with inserted (non-exporting) spacing glyphs. What exactly are you trying to do?

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Thank you for your answer. That is unfortunate! Do you think it will be added in the future?

This is from my understanding the only text alignment possible in Glyphs when writing from left to right:

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And this is my desired alignment, that I am faking here with inserted spaces.

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In an ideal world, it would be amazing if I could automatically center align the text in the viewport in text mode, without having to fake it with spaces. My reasoning behind that is that my workflow consists in taking a lot of Glyphs screenshots, and as much as I understand that Glyphs is not a text layout application, I just think it looks nice when text is center aligned :slight_smile: I also work with particular display fonts that are meant to be read vertically and centered, and it would be super nice if I could test the intended use directly in Glyphs.