I am trying to get the above results, but it seems the only way to do this is to pad the text with periods (I could have used some other character other than a period).  For example:

The display order on the page also needs to be from longest to shortest string of periods in the button's text.  I created the first image using this method, and it does work.

You can do multiple buttons per side using the Sticky Buttons alignment, but that only works for three buttons or less.  You can also fiddle with the margins on the text, but only to a maximum of a 100 pixels. 

Thanks

Craig