reordering lines on a large scale

[lcerrato]

Considering that CTS labels are not inherently meaningful, renumbering a work is not problematic.

I'm curious as to whether we want to delete the old numbering data. It seems to me that someone working with a text may find the traditional print derived numbers useful as place holders and if commenting these out is not problematic, wouldn't we want to keep them, especially in a case where the renumbering radically departs from the traditional format.

When working in an xml file sometimes the number is best way to navigate, particularly if there are variants that are going to trip up a content search.

I fully understand we should be moving past this — but I don't think we are there yet speaking as an editor. I'm willing to be persuaded that I'm missing something here.

An example found in Claudian: /stoa0089/stoa004/stoa0089.stoa004.perseus-lat2.xml
compare at

PerseusDL/canonical-latinLit@3c04319#diff-da145cc17ad6bbda37d1c9c1dbece809