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Originally Posted by Sarmat89
LISTING, XMP, and another one which I don't recall.
Any desktop publishing program which creates physical books can use tabulations to align lines, create ditto lists, align to a character, make vertical breaks necessary for poetry, etc. It can group lines with an element like caption or bracket; with some manual adjustment, it can place elements over and under lines, create columns and insets — all of which is beyond the capabilities of HTML.
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Let's see you do the above with a hot metal typesetting machine since you mentioned this being doable since Gutenberg. Now you are dragging modern desktop publishing programs into the discussion.
Oddly, much of what you claim can not be done with ebooks, I've seen done. It may take some expertise but most of it is doable. For instance, you've never used a figure element with a figcaption?
As for LISTING? There are various tags for creating lists but <listing> does not seem to be one of them and I have never seen the list tags used to list computer code. <code> would be the preferred tag. The <xmp> tag is used to display HTML without interpreting it and in a monospace font.
Considering the number of tags used in HTML5, it's would be more than strange if there weren't a few useful for computer oriented text when viewed on a computer display without interpreting it which is not something that a paper book needs to worry about. Admittedly there were PaperByte™ scannable machine code listings a few decades back.