Hiding/Showing figured bass hold/suspension lines

You can hide/show suspension lines between suspension and resolution figures and hold lines after resolution figures, independently of each other and your project-wide settings.

Prerequisite

  • The lower zone is shown.

  • Properties is selected in the lower zone toolbar.

  • If you are in Engrave mode, Graphic Editing Graphic Editing button is selected in the Engrave toolbox.

Procedure

  1. Select the figured bass suspensions whose hold/suspension lines you want to hide/show. You can do this in Write mode and Engrave mode.
  2. In the Properties panel, activate the following properties, individually or together, in the Figured Bass group:
    • Line between susp. and resolution

    • Continue line after resolution

  3. Activate/Deactivate the corresponding checkboxes.

Result

Hold lines are shown between suspension and resolution figures and/or after resolutions in the selected figured bass suspensions when the corresponding checkboxes are activated, and hidden when the checkboxes are deactivated.

When the properties are deactivated, hold/suspension lines follow your project-wide settings for hiding/showing hold lines.

Tip

You can hide/show figured bass hold/suspension lines by default in different circumstances project-wide, including changing their default end positions, in Engraving Options > Figured Bass > Design.

Example

Figure 1. Suspension and hold lines both hidden
Figure 2. Suspension line between suspension and resolution shown
Figure 3. Suspension line between suspension and resolution and hold line after resolution both shown