Continuation lines ... are not continued on following systems (?)
In the section of the manual, under the first picture is the statement
"Continuation lines are drawn for the whole duration of the figured bass group (but currently are not continued on following systems, the same as for lyric continuation lines)"
In testing this does not seem to be the case. Continuation lines seem to wrap to the next system when entered so they continue to the next measure and the next measure is on a different system. Am I misunderstanding what this says, or does the parenthesis need to just be deleted or a note telling which version changed this?
Comments
In the old days, melisma lines for lyrics did indeed fail to continue across systems, and I don't doubt this applied to figured bass too This bug was fixed years ago, though - see #3961: Melisma line over system break. At least for lyrics. Not sure about figured bass; I'm still not totally comfortable with how continuation lines work and could easily be doing things wrong.
In reply to In the old days, melisma… by Marc Sabatella
The bug report seems to indicate it was fixed prior to the release of 2.0 so the note should not be included in 2.0 documentation. I'll wait for other opinions, perhaps Jojo who apparently was part of fixing it. I'll delete the note if it's agreeable.
In reply to The bug report seems to… by mike320
I was not involved in fixing it, it was Miwarre.
In reply to The bug report seems to… by mike320
Chances are that bit of documentation was also written prior to the release of 2.0. In particular, before that particular bug fix, which happened only a matter of weeks before release.
In reply to Chances are that bit of… by Marc Sabatella
Sound like another remnant of copy and paste from the version 1.x manual. It's easy enough to fix.