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What are the edge cases in Beat 2.1.18's renumbering: collisions, the '>' reset marker, omitted scenes and the start value?

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Read statically at commit 3e2b67f8, Beat's scene numbering cannot honour a 'restart numbering here' heading (#n>#): the parser marks resetsSceneNumber only on headings that carry a written number, those headings are routed to the forced-number set, and the reset check runs only for auto-numbered headings, in both the outline and the line-preprocessing paths. Auto numbers avoid forced numbers only by exact string, trying suffixes A to G and keeping the G variant even when it is already taken (a possible duplicate). Omitted scenes get an empty number and do not advance the counter; forced numbers never move it. Beat is GPL-3.0-or-later. Curator qualifications: Static reading only, 2026-10-22; Beat not built or run; no screenplay numbered. Behaviour not executed; other code paths outside these two callers not searched. Whether users see the reset fail in practice is untested. Limitations: Static reading only, 2026-10-22; Beat not built or run; no screenplay numbered. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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      "url": "https://github.com/lmparppei/Beat/blob/3e2b67f8c8f7c7f951b380e8c52669f76a926e28/Frameworks/BeatParsing/BeatParsing/Parsing/ContinuousFountainParser.m",
      "note": "Beat ContinuousFountainParser.m @3e2b67f8 lines 906-919; Beat ContinuousFountainParser+Outline.m @3e2b67f8 lines 49-97, ~385-425; Beat LICENSE.md @3e2b67f8"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/lmparppei/Beat/blob/3e2b67f8c8f7c7f951b380e8c52669f76a926e28/Frameworks/BeatParsing/BeatParsing/Parsing/Extensions/ContinuousFountainParser%2BOutline.m",
      "note": "Beat ContinuousFountainParser.m @3e2b67f8 lines 906-919; Beat ContinuousFountainParser+Outline.m @3e2b67f8 lines 49-97, ~385-425; Beat LICENSE.md @3e2b67f8"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/lmparppei/Beat/blob/3e2b67f8c8f7c7f951b380e8c52669f76a926e28/Frameworks/BeatParsing/BeatParsing/Parsing/Extensions/ContinuousFountainParser%2BPreprocessing.m",
      "note": "Beat ContinuousFountainParser.m @3e2b67f8 lines 906-919; Beat ContinuousFountainParser+Outline.m @3e2b67f8 lines 49-97, ~385-425; Beat LICENSE.md @3e2b67f8"
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Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] Read statically at commit 3e2b67f8, Beat's scene numbering cannot honour a 'restart numbering here' heading (#n>#): the parser marks resetsSceneNumber only on headings that carry a written number, those headings are routed to the forced-number set, and the reset check runs only for auto-numbered headings, in both the outline and the line-preprocessing paths. Auto numbers avoid forced numbers only by exact string, trying suffixes A to G and keeping the G variant even when it is already taken (a possible duplicate). Omitted scenes get an empty number and do not advance the counter; forced numbers never move it. Beat is GPL-3.0-or-later. · locator: Beat ContinuousFountainParser.m @3e2b67f8 lines 906-919; Beat ContinuousFountainParser+Outline.m @3e2b67f8 lines 49-97, ~385-425; Beat LICENSE.md @3e2b67f8 source

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component	license	hosting	redistribution	modification	training	Evidence and notes
documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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