> I think many publishers (including the ones I work for) do not > like leaving two letters of a word before or after a break.
I stand admonished. In German, it appears quite natural to split off two-letter pre- and suffixes, and the English hyphenation rules often allow it as well. I agree that a solution that does not require excessive hyphenation is preferable. But we're trying to satisfy a number of constraints that cannot always be reconciled, so something has to give. Then it is often simply conventions and/or (personal) aesthetics that decides which of several solutions is the least broken.
