Hello. I still am a very much newcomer on Kotln Compose. In KMP (Linux desktop) Trying to display a BasicTextField with its text centered as follows:

TextAlign

is only for horizontal alignment, as can be seen in code at https://cs.android.com/androidx/platform/frameworks/support/+/androidx-main:compose/[…]nMain/kotlin/androidx/compose/ui/text/style/TextAlign.kt;l=19 and in documentation at https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose/text/style-paragraph#text-alignment