Ties can overlap staff lines
Ubuntu 14.04, GIT commit: be027cd
A recent change to the representation of spanners - their positions are relative to the staff, not the system - broke the code that allowed ties to avoid staff lines. See for example the following recent vtest:
Comments
https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/1488
Fixed in 83e26d87e7
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.