Here’s what I want to do.
Take a scene: Number peragraphs.
Then paste this into a spelling and grammar checker, or use an AI and ask it for suggestions.
Or I’m sending it to a co-author for comment.
And they can reply, Move #17 to above 15. Take out 23-49…
And then I can make the changes.
Framemaker, back when I used it, had a “Lock Numbering” and “Lock Paging” option which allowed you to set these. If you added something that should have been numbered it got some kind of suffix.
e.g.
1 Foo
2 Bar
3 Baz
Then if you removed the Bar paragraph you were left with
1 Foo
3 Baz
And if you added something after Foo you got
1 Foo
1+a Flibbit
2 Bar
3 Baz
I would settle for additons being just unnumbered, and the rest of hte list not changing if I remove a line.
If you put a