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When Beat 2.1.18 exports a script with scene numbers to PDF or FDX, which number string does each path emit?

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In Beat at 3e2b67f, the FDX exporter writes each heading's Number from the parser's sceneNumber, where a trailing '>' (forced-number reset marker) has been removed; the print/PDF path re-reads the raw #...# range into sceneNumber on cloned lines (the curator traced that the assignment runs in the loop over clones), so a heading written with '#5>#' would likely print '5>' while FDX gets '5'. PDF numbers appear only when printSceneNumbers is on. Inference from code; not executed. Curator qualifications: Code read 2026-10-22; Beat not built or run; no export produced. Whether sceneNumberRange includes the > marker depends on sceneNumberForChars (not read); printed output not observed. FDXInterface status and FDX import behaviour not re-read. Limitations: Code read 2026-10-22; Beat not built or run; no export produced. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/lmparppei/Beat/blob/3e2b67f8c8f7c7f951b380e8c52669f76a926e28/Frameworks/BeatParsing/BeatParsing/Parsing/ContinuousFountainParser.m",
      "note": "ContinuousFountainParser.m L905-919 at 3e2b67f; ContinuousFountainParser+Preprocessing.m L60-62 (clone), L76 (second loop over preprocessedLines), L172-182; BeatFDXExport.m L338-345, L425-426; BeatRenderer.m L481"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/lmparppei/Beat/blob/3e2b67f8c8f7c7f951b380e8c52669f76a926e28/Frameworks/BeatFileExport/BeatFileExport/Export/BeatFileExportManager.swift",
      "note": "ContinuousFountainParser.m L905-919 at 3e2b67f; ContinuousFountainParser+Preprocessing.m L60-62 (clone), L76 (second loop over preprocessedLines), L172-182; BeatFDXExport.m L338-345, L425-426; BeatRenderer.m L481"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/lmparppei/Beat/blob/3e2b67f8c8f7c7f951b380e8c52669f76a926e28/Frameworks/BeatFileExport/BeatFileExport/Import/Modules/Final%20Draft/FDXImport.m",
      "note": "ContinuousFountainParser.m L905-919 at 3e2b67f; ContinuousFountainParser+Preprocessing.m L60-62 (clone), L76 (second loop over preprocessedLines), L172-182; BeatFDXExport.m L338-345, L425-426; BeatRenderer.m L481"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/lmparppei/Beat/blob/3e2b67f8c8f7c7f951b380e8c52669f76a926e28/Frameworks/BeatFileExport/BeatFileExport/Export/Modules/Final%20Draft/FDXInterface.m",
      "note": "ContinuousFountainParser.m L905-919 at 3e2b67f; ContinuousFountainParser+Preprocessing.m L60-62 (clone), L76 (second loop over preprocessedLines), L172-182; BeatFDXExport.m L338-345, L425-426; BeatRenderer.m L481"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/lmparppei/Beat/blob/3e2b67f8c8f7c7f951b380e8c52669f76a926e28/Frameworks/BeatParsing/BeatParsing/Parsing/Extensions/ContinuousFountainParser%2BPreprocessing.m",
      "note": "ContinuousFountainParser.m L905-919 at 3e2b67f; ContinuousFountainParser+Preprocessing.m L60-62 (clone), L76 (second loop over preprocessedLines), L172-182; BeatFDXExport.m L338-345, L425-426; BeatRenderer.m L481"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/lmparppei/Beat/blob/3e2b67f8c8f7c7f951b380e8c52669f76a926e28/Frameworks/BeatFileExport/BeatFileExport/Export/Modules/Final%20Draft/BeatFDXExport.m",
      "note": "ContinuousFountainParser.m L905-919 at 3e2b67f; ContinuousFountainParser+Preprocessing.m L60-62 (clone), L76 (second loop over preprocessedLines), L172-182; BeatFDXExport.m L338-345, L425-426; BeatRenderer.m L481"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/lmparppei/Beat/blob/3e2b67f8c8f7c7f951b380e8c52669f76a926e28/Frameworks/BeatPagination2/BeatRenderer.m",
      "note": "ContinuousFountainParser.m L905-919 at 3e2b67f; ContinuousFountainParser+Preprocessing.m L60-62 (clone), L76 (second loop over preprocessedLines), L172-182; BeatFDXExport.m L338-345, L425-426; BeatRenderer.m L481"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] In Beat at 3e2b67f, the FDX exporter writes each heading's Number from the parser's sceneNumber, where a trailing '>' (forced-number reset marker) has been removed; the print/PDF path re-reads the raw #...# range into sceneNumber on cloned lines (the curator traced that the assignment runs in the loop over clones), so a heading written with '#5>#' would likely print '5>' while FDX gets '5'. PDF numbers appear only when printSceneNumbers is on. Inference from code; not executed. · locator: ContinuousFountainParser.m L905-919 at 3e2b67f; ContinuousFountainParser+Preprocessing.m L60-62 (clone), L76 (second loop over preprocessedLines), L172-182; BeatFDXExport.m L338-345, L425-426; BeatRenderer.m L481 source

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documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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