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Or even better, have InDesign do this automatically. Like Optical Alignment but not for the entire frame, just the first letter.

There's a simple work-around for this: insert a discretionary break character before the first letter of the paragraph, then, with the cursor between the discr break and the first letter, apply kerning.

In addition to optical margin alignment, this would be useful if you want to kern around drop caps! Bringing in the first line of a paragraph with a drop cap "A", for instance, or moving out the second line to accommodate the long swash of a "Q."

Yes! We definitely need this feature!

Yes, please. I'd definitely appreciate this feature.

preach it brother

This seems like a no brainer given that the feature already exists in other Adobe software. Having to put a space before a line of text (and potentially an unnecessary soft return) that can be negatively kerned into just adds mess to the document and potential for error if the copy is reformatted at a later date.

Brauchen wir!

Yes, please – that would be a huge improvement. In this context, I’d like to bring a long hold wish of mine back into memory: a kerning editor, which honors left and right text frame border, so I can define my own set of optical margin alignment.
https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests/suggestions/31111675-kerning-editor-with-individual-margin-alignment-o

I‘m already used and loving the „blank space“ and -200 spacing to get there - why the change 😭 joking - please add this already

Many users would appreciate that, I suppose.

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it's a shame it's not available long ago.

Could prove useful sometimes, better than workarounds.

No question, if you want to be the leading tool!!!

Yes, that would be a great feature!