I believe that org-indent-mode (#+STARTUP: indent) might do what you
want with the content, although I expect that it will interfere with the
specialized overlays for right-aligning the *'s.

On 28 Apr, David Cao wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> This solution works fairly well with the headers themselves, but the actual
> content beneath the headers stays to the side of the buffer (as pictured:
> http://i.imgur.com/nGv8XBI.png).
> Would there be any way to fix this?
> 
> David
> 
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 9:47 AM John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
> wrote:
> 
> > I think this does approximately what you want:
> >
> > #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :results none
> > (require 'ov)
> >
> > (defun org-max-heading-depth ()
> >   "Get maximum depth of a heading."
> >   (let ((max-depth 0)
> >         depth)
> >     (org-map-entries (lambda ()
> >                        (when (> (setq depth (car
> > (org-heading-components))) max-depth)
> >                          (setq max-depth depth))))
> >     max-depth))
> >
> >
> > (defun org-right-align-overlay ()
> >   "Put an overlay on headline * to right align to maximum depth.
> > Should be run while on the headline."
> >   (interactive)
> >   (let* ((diff (- (org-max-heading-depth) (car (org-heading-components))))
> >          ov)
> >     (while (and (setq ov (ov-at (match-beginning 1)))
> >                (overlay-get ov 'right-align))
> >       (delete-overlay ov))
> >
> >     ;; (setq ov (make-overlay (line-beginning-position) (+ 1
> > (line-beginning-position))))
> >     (setq ov (make-overlay (match-beginning 1) (+ 1 (match-beginning 1))))
> >     (overlay-put ov 'before-string (make-string diff ? ))
> >     (overlay-put ov 'right-align t)))
> >
> > (defun org-right-align-clear ()
> >   (interactive)
> >   (ov-clear 'right-align))
> >
> > (defun align-matcher (&optional limit)
> >   (while (re-search-forward org-heading-regexp limit t)
> >     (org-right-align-overlay)))
> >
> > (add-to-list 'org-font-lock-hook 'align-matcher)
> > #+END_SRC
> >
> > Its only light tested, and may be slow on a long document because it is
> > checking the maximum depth each time. You could set this to a constant,
> > e.g. 8 if it is too slow.
> >
> > David Cao writes:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I was wondering if there is any way to right-align the header indicators
> > > while left-aligning the actual content. Unfortunately I haven't been able
> > > to find any mention of such a feature online.
> > >
> > > For example:
> > >
> > >   * My fancy org file
> > >  ** Header 2
> > >     Some content here
> > > *** Header 3
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance!
> > > David
> >
> >
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> >