Big and small text alignment

Why doesn't InDesign align text to the border of the textframe?
Especially with big and small text in the same textframe, the gaps before the text are scaled too making text optically not aligned at all.
Optical margin alignment helps a bit, but not good enough.
Am i overlooking something?
Still working in CS3 btw.

Ok knowing the right term "side bearing", i did some google searching and stumbled upon this topic at indesignsecrets:
http://indesignsecrets.com/removing-space-along-left-edge.php
There's a link to a script from Dave Saunders that aligns the letters optically to the left. Tested and works! InDesigns own optical margin alignment should be turned of though. I immediately assigned a shortcut to this great script.
PS: Concerning the "why is side bearing split into left and right": i guess for example a letter 'D' for example shouldn't have equal side bearings because of the rounding to right.

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