[pdurrant]

It is true that the current ebook standards make it very hard, if not impossible, to do things that should be simple, and so make formatting ebooks to look good a lot harder than it should be.

* No good way to do drop capitals, either of images or characters.
* No good way to do raised capitals without affecting the line spacing of the first line, or forcing line spacing to a fixed value.
* No good way to make an image and caption fit a full page
* (display software problem) No consistent way to do proper smallcaps
* No good way to properly format poetry (e.g. wrapping lines so the wrapped part is aligned right)

And those are just the ones that immediately spring to mind.