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Originally Posted by Sarmat89
But you cannot control the Y axis. Your document is one single run of characters that is broken into lines outside of your control. You cannot place anything below or above the line, cannot synchronize the distinct lines, can't even place things aside. Gutenberg could do what HTML can not, because HTML was never intended for books. The fact that is was intended for documentation is evident from the list of its elements. There was no poetry or text alignment, but THREE different elements for formatting computer programs.
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Hmmm... the books I've been reading with furigana don't exist? As for control? What control do I have over a printed book that I purchase? And if you think there is no control over where lines are broken in HTML, I would suggest that you take a remedial CSS class since there are multiple ways of controlling line breaks.
Which three elements for formatting computer programs? If you are thinking of the text align options (right, left and justify), I seem to remember those predating HTML by centuries. If you are thinking of the code, kbd, samp, var and pre, that's a bit more than three and several would not be able to be applied to a physical book.