One letter drop to new line

[mykee]

Hello,

I wrapping a book, and a letter many times goes to end of line (this letter is "a" what is "the").

How can I set Publisher for one character drop to new line automatically?

[walt.farrell]

Can you provide a screenshot to better demonstrate your problem?

[mykee]

Here is an example: "A" letter on end of line, but start a new sentence. If I can set a parameter (in paragraph settings) for "one letter drop to new line", that's will be great.

[Alfred]

I don’t think there’s a setting for this. The usual way to deal with that situation is simply to use a non-breaking space between the ‘a’ and the next word.

[mykee]

Great tip, but I think an option will great, if I no see this character when read text.

[Wosven]

Try to replace them like this:

Find: "<space>A<space>"

Replace all: "<space>A<non-breaking space>"

[mykee]

I will try this replace tip, great thanks!

Update: this non-breaking space tip was the best, I tested, and I will use in future! Thank you Alfred and Wosven!

[Petr Illek]

I've tried to use a technique I was using in InDesign for 10+ years and its working.

In Find field use regular expression (this one is set-up for Czech language, but should be fairly easy to update for others):

(\<[szkvaiouSZKVAIOU])[ ]

Then in the Replace with use:

$1

That will use any result from the regex.

Add anything before or after that. In my case I'm adding the Non Breaking Space after. See attached screenshot.

$1[Non Breaking Space]

Sadly this Find and Replace cannot be saved as a preset now.

 

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, petr.illek said:

Sadly this Find and Replace cannot be saved as a preset now.

The 1.8 beta has an improvement in this area, and remembers Find and Replace expressions that you have used. It needs further improvement (for example, the Find and Replace values are not tied together and cannot be tied together), but it's a start.

[james948]

Sorry can you clarify how to do a non-breaking space and what it does?

Also I don't suppose there's been a chance in the way this is handled? It seems odd to not to be able to disallow one letter orphans at the end of a line

[Alfred]

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