Allow vertical alignment of text within a text box

[stephenm2254366]

I would like the option to vertically align text within a text box. Currently you can only do horizontal alignment. This is a feature in numerous other design programs and web apps. Cavalry has this feature  for example(image attached), and you can also vertically align in Premiere Pro.

Why is this important?

If I am setting up templates or Mogrts that have text boxes where the text needs to be centered on screen, if the text drops down another line then it throws the vertical alignment off. The anchor point does not stay centered.

Follow up request.

Allow text to scale down to fit inside a text box. So if the content exceeds the space allowed, rather than clip off text it dynamically reduces the font size of the text. Again, other design software have this feature.

[Leon de Peejon]

Yes! Please Adobe, implement this.
David Lindgren found a workaround, involving expresisons on the acnhor property of the text layer. Hoever, this breaks up my animated text.

[Roland Kahlenberg]

The Expression isn't difficult and you can save it as an FFX - 

Anchor Point Expression - 
const myLayerRect = thisLayer.sourceRectAtTime();
[myLayerRect.left + myLayerRect.width/2 , myLayerRect.top + myLayerRect.height/2]


Position - 
[thisComp.width/2 , thisComp.height/2]

And what's nice with locking both the Anchor Point and Position is you get to change Paragraph Justification and the layer stays locked in place; always centered in the composition.

If you want something interesting for your MoGRTs, I've got a few interesting solutions - 
Adaptive Anchor Point and Text Reflow - 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXmoVWsuwUA&t=1285s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXmoVWsuwUA&t=1388s 


And I've got this script that should be available in a couple of weeks, along with about 18 other interesting scripts - Anchor Point Pro - 
It does regular Anchor Point setups without disturbing an existing Motion Path within the Position Property. And it's got features to set up Baselines for your Text Layers.