Figured Bass Improvements

[Trent J]

Good Afternoon,

I started using lilypond a couple of months ago but soon had to abandon it 
because of its weak figured bass support. I've been following the 
developments for a while in hope that the support for figured bass would be 
strengthened. At this stage I have seen no sign of this. Is it ever going to 
be improved? The rest of the program is excellent especially for the support 
of "ancient" notation, but with the lack of figured bass support it is 
severely let down when using older notations.

Any comments / hints of further development appreciated.

Regards,

Trent