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There are so many things ePub needs in order to be acceptable as a typographic platform. Implementing a true optical margin option in which not just punctuation but also portions of letters such as the W or A are allowed to extend slightly beyond the margin to create the look of a balanced margin is just one of many. The only recourse at the moment is to hand-tune things like hanging punctuation, but that only works for one font size.
It's such a shame that the designers of the ePub standard seemed to have no interest in typography. Hopefully the standard will keep improving over the years until we get something that is actually typographically acceptable. Until then, I generally can't get more than a few pages into an ePub before being so distracted and irritated by the goofy typography that I can't really enjoy the book.
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