Breakable figured bass extender lines

[liang seng]

Hi, I'm using Lilypond to type out some music with figured basses and I came up with a unique situation. Is it possible to use a breakable extender line over several bars when the break would correspond to a rest in the bass line music? Consider the following example:

\version "2.7.17"
\relative {
<<
\context Voice {
\clef bass
f,4 r f r f r f r }
\context FiguredBass \figuremode {  \set useBassFigureExtenders = ##t
<6>4 r <6> r <6> r <6> r } >> }


Thanks

As you can see, all the notes "f" have the same figure. However, is it possible to substitute all the figures "6" except the first one with extender lines? This is used to mean that the instrument that is playing the realized figured bass plays the same chords all the way. The catch is the extender line cannot be continuos since it will not make sense as when there are rests, the instrument does not play. Therefore, the extender line "break" whenever it encounters a rest. In a way, it can be described that the all "6" except the first are relaced by dashes. I'm highlighting this because there are some scores whose figured bass is typed this way.

example.pdf
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