psalter: record the Matins/T-S-N psalm redistribution for milestone 3/5
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Non-Sunday Monastic Matins is 12 psalms/day; ferial Terce/Sext/None always
repeats the same 9 (119-127) regardless of weekday. Worked out an editorial
redistribution in conversation: cut non-Sunday Matins to 9/day, and hand
the freed capacity to Friday's and Saturday's Terce/Sext/None instead of
discarding it, keeping Wednesday/Thursday's 119-127 as-is and leaving
Sunday/Monday/Tuesday untouched entirely.

No code reads `matins`/`terce`/`sext`/`none` from this table yet — those
hours don't exist until milestone 3 (T/S/N) and milestone 5 (Matins).
Recording the decision now, with the method spelled out in the comment,
so it survives until then rather than needing to be re-derived. Verified
against a real Monastic Tridentinum 1617 run throughout, not reconstructed
from memory.
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@@ -36,3 +36,157 @@ prime:
- { number: 17, verses: "26-51" } - { number: 17, verses: "26-51" }
- { number: 18 } - { number: 18 }
- { number: 19 } - { number: 19 }
# Editorial redistribution, worked out day-by-day in conversation before
# Matins/Terce/Sext/None existed as hours — recorded here so the decision
# survives until milestone 3/5 actually consumes it, not because any code
# reads `matins`/`terce`/`sext`/`none` yet.
#
# The problem: Monastic ferial Matins has 12 psalms/day, which felt like
# too many; ferial Terce/Sext/None always repeats the same 9 short psalms
# (119-127) regardless of weekday, which felt monotonous. The fix: cut
# non-Sunday Matins to 9/day, and give the freed-up capacity to Friday and
# Saturday's Terce/Sext/None instead of just discarding it.
#
# Method (do not re-derive without this context, the reasoning isn't
# obvious from the numbers alone):
# 1. Classify every non-Sunday Matins psalm as "must-stay" (>~15 verses,
# or blocked because it's half of a split psalm whose other half is
# too long — a split psalm always moves as a pair or not at all) or
# "could-move" (short and free to relocate). 43 must-stay, 29
# could-move, verified against a real Monastic 1617 Tue-Sat run
# (Mon/Sat cross-checked directly; the verse-count table this was
# built from is in the conversation, not repeated here).
# 2. Non-Sunday Matins needs 9*6=54 psalms total; only 43 were
# naturally must-stay, so the 11 *longest* could-move psalms were
# promoted back to must-stay (bringing the total to exactly 54) —
# pragmatic, not a liturgical principle: given a forced choice
# between two "short enough" psalms, keep the longer one in Matins
# and let the truly shortest ones be the ones that actually move.
# 3. The resulting 54 were resliced into six fresh groups of 9, in
# continuous psalm order, *not* respecting original day boundaries —
# this is why e.g. Tuesday's Matins below includes psalms that were
# originally Monday's. One adjustment was needed by hand: the raw
# reslice split Psalm 103 across Friday and Saturday, so Ps 96 (the
# shortest non-103 psalm on Friday) was swapped out to Saturday to
# let both halves of 103 land together on Friday.
# 4. The remaining 18 could-move psalms are exactly 2 days' worth of
# Terce+Sext+None (3+3+3=9 per day) — enough to replace Friday's and
# Saturday's, in the same continuous psalm order, filling Terce then
# Sext then None. Not enough to also replace Wednesday's or
# Thursday's, which keep the traditional 119-127 unchanged.
#
# Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday's Terce/Sext/None are untouched by any of
# this (still whatever Divinum Officium gives natively — Ps 118 sections
# for Sunday/Monday, 119-127 for Tuesday) and so aren't recorded here;
# source them from the reference engine directly when those hours are
# built, the same as Wednesday/Thursday's unchanged 119-127 below.
matins:
monday:
- { number: 32 }
- { number: 33 }
- { number: 34 }
- { number: 36, verses: "1-26" }
- { number: 36, verses: "27-40" }
- { number: 37 }
- { number: 38 }
- { number: 39 }
- { number: 40 }
tuesday:
- { number: 43 }
- { number: 44 }
- { number: 47 }
- { number: 48 }
- { number: 49 }
- { number: 54 }
- { number: 55 }
- { number: 58 }
- { number: 59 }
wednesday:
- { number: 65 }
- { number: 67, verses: "2-19" }
- { number: 67, verses: "20-36" }
- { number: 68, verses: "2-16" }
- { number: 68, verses: "17-37" }
- { number: 70 }
- { number: 71 }
- { number: 72 }
- { number: 73 }
thursday:
- { number: 76 }
- { number: 77, verses: "1-35" }
- { number: 77, verses: "36-72" }
- { number: 78 }
- { number: 79 }
- { number: 80 }
- { number: 82 }
- { number: 83 }
- { number: 84 }
friday:
- { number: 85 }
- { number: 88, verses: "2-19" }
- { number: 88, verses: "20-53" }
- { number: 93 }
- { number: 95 }
- { number: 101 }
- { number: 102 }
- { number: 103, verses: "1-24" }
- { number: 103, verses: "25-35" }
saturday:
- { number: 96 }
- { number: 104, verses: "1-22" }
- { number: 104, verses: "23-45" }
- { number: 105, verses: "1-31" }
- { number: 105, verses: "32-48" }
- { number: 106, verses: "1-24" }
- { number: 106, verses: "25-43" }
- { number: 107 }
- { number: 108 }
# Sunday deliberately not modeled here — real Sunday Matins is
# structurally different (3 nocturns, canticles) and untouched by this
# redistribution; source it directly from the reference engine.
terce:
wednesday: &gradual-terce
- { number: 119 }
- { number: 120 }
- { number: 121 }
thursday: *gradual-terce
friday:
- { number: 41 }
- { number: 45 }
- { number: 46 }
saturday:
- { number: 69 }
- { number: 74 }
- { number: 81 }
sext:
wednesday: &gradual-sext
- { number: 122 }
- { number: 123 }
- { number: 124 }
thursday: *gradual-sext
friday:
- { number: 51 }
- { number: 52 }
- { number: 53 }
saturday:
- { number: 86 }
- { number: 92 }
- { number: 97 }
none:
wednesday: &gradual-none
- { number: 125 }
- { number: 126 }
- { number: 127 }
thursday: *gradual-none
friday:
- { number: 57 }
- { number: 60 }
- { number: 61 }
saturday:
- { number: 98 }
- { number: 99 }
- { number: 100 }