vertically align text

I am affected by this issue as well. In my case, I need to center some text vertically between two guides and horizontally between two other guides. My idea was to create a manually sized text box, snapping its sides to the four guides, and then horizontally and vertically center the text in it. Horizontal centering works by just setting a centered alignment, but vertical centering is missing. Some complicated workarounds have been suggested on the IRC channel, but having this option would greatly simplify this layout task (which I would expect to be rather common)

Even though the report is old, here's a hint for the records on how to accomplish vertically aligned text in boxes 'by hand'.

Create a box.
Create a text.
(Move text somewhere into the box.)
Select both text and box.
Menu "Object" > "Align and Distribute" (a panel pops up)
In top part of panel, select "center on vertical axis" (there is one to select on horizontal axis as well).
Voila, your text is now exactly centered in the box.

Drawback: You'll have to go through the procedure again whenever you change the box' or text's size.

This feature would be neat to have in the app! <3

I needed this feature just today.

This would be useful. fabtagon's suggestion works in many cases where the box is rectangular, but when it's not (i.e. it's been flown into a shape like a hexagon) this doesn't really work well. Seems like this would be a pretty useful feature.

I hope this feature is added soon.

Me too would like to see this feature in Inkscape soon!

Vertical alignment {Top, Middle, Bottom} is a standard feature in Visio.
Inkscape needs this feature.

Any progress?