diff --git a/compatibility/compiler-expectations.json b/compatibility/compiler-expectations.json
index 63259a9..7b74cfe 100644
--- a/compatibility/compiler-expectations.json
+++ b/compatibility/compiler-expectations.json
@@ -593,9 +593,9 @@
         "provenance:real-world/ow1-emulator/fixture.json"
       ],
       "owner": "opy-rs#88",
-      "note": "The full real-world project now resolves included-file #!mainFile and #!defineMember directives; it remains outside the compiler baseline at the next lexer line-continuation boundary.",
+      "note": "The full real-world project now resolves included-file #!mainFile, #!defineMember directives, and continued directive lines; it remains outside the compiler baseline at the duplicate-include macro-redeclaration boundary.",
       "failureClass": "frontend",
-      "diagnosticCode": "lex-error"
+      "diagnosticCode": "macro-redeclaration"
     },
     {
       "fixture": "synthetic/chase-condition-agentlab",
diff --git a/compatibility/differential-expectations.json b/compatibility/differential-expectations.json
index 99ddaac..26f9067 100644
--- a/compatibility/differential-expectations.json
+++ b/compatibility/differential-expectations.json
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
     {"fixture": "real-world/overpy-parabola", "nativeStatus": "failure", "classification": "known-gap", "ruleNames": false, "evidence": ["oracle:real-world/overpy-parabola/oracle.json", "regression:real-world/overpy-parabola/fixture.json"], "note": "The numeric enum member regression now resolves; the full project reaches the next multiline parenthesized expression gap at parabola.opy:50."},
     {"fixture": "real-world/overpy-meipocalypse", "nativeStatus": "failure", "classification": "match", "ruleNames": false, "evidence": ["oracle:real-world/overpy-meipocalypse/oracle.json", "provenance:real-world/overpy-meipocalypse/fixture.json"], "note": "The reference rejects the missing script hook; native rejection is retained with a different earlier diagnostic."},
     {"fixture": "real-world/overpy-zencopter", "nativeStatus": "failure", "classification": "match", "ruleNames": false, "evidence": ["oracle:real-world/overpy-zencopter/oracle.json", "provenance:real-world/overpy-zencopter/fixture.json"], "note": "Both sides reject the pinned upstream example; native diagnostic wording is not used as semantic evidence."},
-    {"fixture": "real-world/ow1-emulator", "nativeStatus": "failure", "classification": "match", "ruleNames": false, "evidence": ["oracle:real-world/ow1-emulator/oracle.json", "provenance:real-world/ow1-emulator/fixture.json"], "note": "The full project now resolves included-file #!mainFile and #!defineMember directives; the failure case remains at the next lexer line-continuation boundary."},
+    {"fixture": "real-world/ow1-emulator", "nativeStatus": "failure", "classification": "match", "ruleNames": false, "evidence": ["oracle:real-world/ow1-emulator/oracle.json", "provenance:real-world/ow1-emulator/fixture.json"], "note": "The full project now resolves included-file #!mainFile, #!defineMember directives, and continued directive lines; the failure case remains at the duplicate-include macro-redeclaration boundary."},
     {"fixture": "real-world/6v6-adjustments", "nativeStatus": "failure", "classification": "match", "ruleNames": false, "evidence": ["oracle:real-world/6v6-adjustments/oracle.json", "provenance:real-world/6v6-adjustments/fixture.json"], "note": "The full project now resolves included-file #!mainFile and #!defineMember directives; the failure case remains at the existing included settings-placement boundary."},
     {"fixture": "synthetic/issue-35-integration", "nativeStatus": "success", "classification": "match", "ruleNames": true, "evidence": ["oracle:synthetic/issue-35-integration/oracle.json", "implementation-invariant:opy-rs::compiler-vertical-slice"], "note": "The OPY source implementation resolves the source fixture; the compiler test independently lowers it through canonical WIR validation and deterministic workshop-rs emission."},
     {"fixture": "synthetic/issue-40-structural", "nativeStatus": "success", "classification": "match", "ruleNames": false, "evidence": ["oracle:synthetic/issue-40-structural/oracle.json", "implementation-invariant:opy-rs::compiler-structural-lowering"], "note": "The pinned oracle records subroutine source identity, deterministic explicit/implicit variable allocation, and player event filters; the compiler test independently asserts those structures in canonical WIR."},
diff --git a/crates/opy-rs/src/lexer.rs b/crates/opy-rs/src/lexer.rs
index 99a6c9b..b32e267 100644
--- a/crates/opy-rs/src/lexer.rs
+++ b/crates/opy-rs/src/lexer.rs
@@ -223,7 +223,13 @@ impl Lexer {
             self.advance();
             self.advance();
             let mut text = String::new();
-            while self.pos < self.chars.len() && self.chars[self.pos] != '\n' {
+            while self.pos < self.chars.len() {
+                if self.chars[self.pos] == '\\' && self.skip_line_continuation() {
+                    continue;
+                }
+                if self.chars[self.pos] == '\n' {
+                    break;
+                }
                 text.push(self.chars[self.pos]);
                 self.advance();
             }
@@ -574,6 +580,18 @@ mod tests {
         assert!(!tokens.iter().any(|t| t.text == "comment"));
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn directive_line_continuation_is_part_of_one_directive() {
+        let tokens = lex_ok("#!define X first + \\\n  second\n");
+        let directive = tokens
+            .iter()
+            .find(|token| token.kind == TokenKind::Directive)
+            .unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(directive.text, "define X first +   second");
+        assert_eq!(directive.span.start, Position::new(1, 1));
+        assert_eq!(directive.span.end, Position::new(2, 9));
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn operators() {
         let tokens = lex_ok("a += b == c <= d != e / f");