Hide dashed 8va and loco lines?

Good morning!

Why does the “loco” text have a extender line on it? How are you supposed to use it? I’ve been through all sorts of repertoire in a Google search and not one piece of music has an extender line for the text “loco”. Elaine Gould says nothing about it either that I’ve been able to find.

I can remove the hook in Engrave mode, but I can not remove the short line above the second letter “o”.

Having the hook there seems to suggest that “playing the music in place” only goes so far as the hook does but this is not correct. I need to be able to get rid of this line and hook all together. Am I missing something?

Daniel asked “why would you want to get rid of the 8va extender line”. Here is an example of such a case.

PS I’ve tried 4 times to add additional attachments. They show up fine in the editor and then disappear once submitted. You still get the picture though.