From 79f31e518588ae5e97a3aee750f7b95c107ff1af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mark-sil <83427558+mark-sil@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2026 13:27:37 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?LT-21004:=20Fix=20text=20alignment=20when=20?=
 =?UTF-8?q?=E2=80=98Sorted=20from=20End=E2=80=99?=
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---
 Src/views/VwTextBoxes.cpp | 17 +++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Src/views/VwTextBoxes.cpp b/Src/views/VwTextBoxes.cpp
index cf309c57bb..91a036c915 100644
--- a/Src/views/VwTextBoxes.cpp
+++ b/Src/views/VwTextBoxes.cpp
@@ -3186,10 +3186,12 @@ class ParaBuilder
 		// If there are inner piles in the line, align their corresponding components
 		IntVec vdyBaselines; // item is position of nth baseline
 		bool fNeedAdjust = false;
+		bool bContainsInnerPileBox = false;
 		for (pbox = m_pboxStartLine; ; pbox = pbox->Next())
 		{
 			if (pbox->IsInnerPileBox())
 			{
+				bContainsInnerPileBox = true;
 				int irow = 0;
 				pbox->ComputeInnerPileBaselines(m_pvpbox, vdyBaselines, 0, irow, fNeedAdjust);
 			}
@@ -3268,11 +3270,18 @@ class ParaBuilder
 			break;
 		case ktalRight:
 			if (m_pvpbox->RightToLeft()) {
-				xPos = m_dxTrail + dxAlignMentAdjust;
+				xPos = m_dxTrail;
 			}
 			else {
-				xPos = m_dxLead + dxAlignMentAdjust;
+				xPos = m_dxLead;
 			}
+
+			// Only add the adjustment if this box does not contain an inner pile. (LT-21004)
+			if (!bContainsInnerPileBox)
+			{
+				xPos += dxAlignMentAdjust;
+			}
+
 			xSpaceUsed = xPos;
 			dxExtraWidthRight = m_dxLead;
 			break;
@@ -9993,10 +10002,6 @@ void VwConcParaBox::DoSpecialAlignment(IVwGraphics * pvg)
 {
 	if (m_cpo & kcpoAlign)
 	{
-		// For now we can only do align left.
-		// The trick otherwise is not just to do our alignment, but to undo what the
-		// superclass Layout did.
-		Assert(m_qzvps->ParaAlign() == ktalLeft || m_qzvps->ParaAlign() == ktalLeading);
 		// Figure out where the key word is naturally displayed.
 		// First find the box it is part of.
 		VwStringBox * psbox = NULL;