How to find all "I" on end of lines and break it to the next line

[ittvangergo]

Dear People who are more experienced than me,

I checked the forum (also google is my friend) and there were kinda similar questions but I haven't seen any solution for my situation.

The situation:

– I am working on a book.

– Many of the sentences start with "I".

– Sometimes the "I" in the begining of a sentence is also happens to be the last word of a line.

For example:

--

This is very good. I
believe I was here before.

--

– The customer doesn't want the sentence starting "I"s to be on the end of the lines.

The handling I need:

Using our example sentence I have three ways to handle this:

It's either

This is very good.

I believe I was here before.

or

This is very good. I believe

I was here before.

or

This is very good. I be-
lieve I was here before.

So it's: break it to the next line or bring the next word after "I".

Maybe I am not the first one who needs a solution for that. I hope some of you know a solution for this.

Thanks,

gergo

PS: Sometimes I work on Hungarian books and they start sentences with "A" very often. So if you could tell me a solution which can be applied to any chosen capital letter it would be even better.

[Barb Binder · Accepted solution]

Hi Gergo:

One option is to replace the spacebar space after the letter "I" with a non-breaking space. Find the letter I followed by a space, replace with the letter I and a non-breaking space (^S).

Or if you are using styles, you can create a character style with No Break enabled, and assign it to the letter I followed by a space with a GREP style.

~Barb

[winterm]

assign it to the letter I followed by a space with a GREP style.

Hi, Barb,

my 2 cents, if you don’t mind: applying No Break to the space is just enough: \bI\K\h

[ittvangergo]

Dear  BarbBinder,

This was very helpful with the screenshots and mini tutorial.

Very valuable for me. Thank you very much!

Best,

gergo

[Barb Binder]

Hi Gergo,

Always happy to help.

~Barb