re: Lyrics for ossia staff

Hi all,

I expect this has been solved somewhere, but I can't find it. The documentation is good at explaining how to do something in isolation, but not so good at explaining how to do something in the middle of a different structure, such as a choir staff.

Anyway, I have a choir staff to which I want to add an extra staff for the Soprano I voices. I want the staff to appear at measure 27 and continue until measure 41 and then stop. I want the extra staff to contain both music and lyrics.
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I was able to get the staff and music to work fairly well using a structure suggested in a previous discussion on ossia staves. How can I get lyrics to go with it? The structure follows. Sorry it's so long: I'm not sure where all the commands need to be placed. If there's a more elegant solution, I'm all in favor of it, even if it means restructuring the whole piece:
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\version "2.18.2"

\header { }

global = {

\key d \major

\time 4/4

\tempo 4=69

\set Score.markFormatter = #format-mark-box-alphabet }

sopI = \relative c'' {

\global

\dynamicUp

Notes and rests.

}

ossia = \relative c’’ { \stopStaff s1*25 \startStaff

Notes and rests for auxiliary staff

\stopStaff

}

verseSopranoVoice = \lyricmode { Lyrics here. }

olyrics = \lyricmode { Auxiliary lyrics here. }

altoVoice = same setup as sopI

verseAltoVoice = same setup as sopI

tenorVoice = same setup as sopI

verseTenorVoice = same setup as sopI

bassVoice = same setup as sopI

verseBassVoice = same setup as sopI

sopranoVoicePart = <<

\context Staff = “top” \with {

instrumentName = "Sopranos"

shortInstrumentName = \markup \center-column { "S1" "S2" }

midiInstrument = "choir aahs"

} { \new Voice = “1” \sopI }

\lyrics {

\new Lyrics \lyricsto “1” \verseSopranoVoice }

\new Staff \with {

alignAbove Context = #”top”

\remove “Time_signature_engraver”

\override Clef #’transparent = ##t

} { \ossia }

}

altoVoicePart = \new Staff \with {

instrumentName = “Altos”

shortInstrumentName \ \markup \center-column { “A1” “A2” }

midiInstrument = “choir aahs”

} { \altoVoice }

\addlyrics { \verseAltoVoice }

tenorVoicePart = same setup as altoVoicePart

bassVoicePart = same setup as altoVoicePart

\score {

\sopranoVoicePart

\altoVoicePart

\tenorVoicePart

\bassVoicePart

\layout { }

\midi { }

}

Thanks,

Jerry Starks
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From:	Remy CLAVERIE
Subject:	re: Lyrics for ossia staff
Date:	Sun, 3 Jan 2021 19:30:59 +0100 (CET)