I myself was struck by how ugly the hyphenation looked because the hyphens (and periods, and commas, and semicolons, and quotation marks) didn't poke outside th

I myself was struck by how ugly the hyphenation looked because the hyphens (and periods, and commas, and semicolons, and quotation marks) didn't poke outside the margin slightly to make the perceived margin straight. Even with a greedy line-by-line model as used in web browsers, LaTeX's \usepackage{microtype} ought to be fairly easy to implement.