Optical Margins ID4
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You want to have different alignment for each size? Then it's not alignment any more at the story level.
I'm not completely sold on this argument from Adobe, but it does have some persuasiveness. I think there's room for both story level and paragraph level, but they would serve different purposes. What InDesign offers is optical margin alignment for stories, not individual paragraphs. Allow it at the paragraph level and you will no longer have it at the story level. My sense is that too many users want it at the paragraph level that Adobe is being short-sighted by digging in their heels on this one. But paragraph-level optical margins are not the same as story level aligned margins.
Two things I certainly would like to have added to the current feature are:
1. The ability to switch it off for selected paragraph styles.
2. The ability to set different alignment quantities for each margin.