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Originally Posted by Notjohn
There is absolutely nothing wrong with a line of type ending in a single-letter word like "I" or "a".
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What I was trying to avoid wasn't just any instance of "I" or "a", but rather having a line end with a brand new sentence, starting with the word "I" or "A" (capital "A"), i.e. so you don't end up with lines that look like, say, this...
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. I
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
It's just nicer if that "I" (or "A") wraps over to the next line.
Interestingly, then you wrote...
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Nor will you (I don't think) find any rule against hyphenating a surname.
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...followed almost right afterwards by...
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To be sure, the CMOS recommends against breaking a proper name "if there is any way to avoid it,"
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Um, okay.
In any case, with regard to how I did my book (if that's what you're referring to), with all the testing that I did -- in ADE on my computer, and in iBooks on my iPad, in both portrait and two-page landscape orientations, and in all font-size settings -- the effect it had was a great improvement, far less gratuitous hyphenation all over the place, and various other benefits (like the end-of-line "I", etc.).
I'm more than open to hearing about any issues that anyone might find with it, and even open-minded enough to go back and totally scrap what I did completely, and just let the chips (hyphenations) fall where they may -- but the various criticisms that you just made certainly haven't given me a single reason to scrap it.
