Tyler, thank you so much, it worked! I found my error: I had a redundant
\new Lyrics context in my choralpart.ly file. And thank you so much for the
reminders about ly file etiquette, my apologies.

Keizen
they/them


On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 12:32 PM Tyler Mitchell <fiss...@ldx.ca> wrote:

> [With apologies for repeatedly mailing the list...]
>
> Perhaps a better way, if you want to use alignBelowContext instead,
> is to assign a name to the Lyrics context itself, like:
>
> \version "2.18.2"
>
> \score {
>   <<
>     \new Staff <<
>       \new Voice = "soprano" \relative c' {
>         e4 d c d e e e r
>       }
>       \new Lyrics = "soprano-lyrics" \lyricsto "soprano" {
>         Ma -- ry had a
>         <<
>           { lit -- tle lamb, }
>           \new Lyrics \with {
>             alignBelowContext = #"soprano-lyrics"
>           } {
>             \set associatedVoice = #"soprano"
>             laz -- er bat,
>           }
>         >>
>       }
>     >>
>     \new Staff = "bass-staff" <<
>       \new Voice = "bass" \relative c {
>         \clef bass
>         c4 c g' g a a g r
>       }
>     >>
>   >>
> }
>
> And that produces the "better" spacing that I like in the "\skip"
> version, too. (Sometimes it's fun to rethink a problem you think
> you've already solved...)
>
> Best,
> Tyler
>
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