Another Lyrics spacing issue.

[Hwaen Ch'uqi]

Greetings All,

I have been having another puzzling alignment issue involving
competing Lyrics contexts.. The result of this code is again that the
part to be shouted by the chorus prints before the spoken line of the
single character is finished. I believe I have correctly attempted the
spacing solution given in the NR, but to no avail. I have tried other
ways of manipulating the code (which I alas cannot reproduce at the
moment), which results in a correct alignment between the solo
character and the Chorus, but there is then an unwanted gap between
the penultimate and last words of the spoken line. Is there a way to
resolve this so that there is neither a gap in the spoken text nor a
collision between the two lines? Ideally, I would like to accomplish
this using a double-dotted half rest rather than the half and dotted
quarter rsts shown below. Thank you so much for any help.

Hwaen Ch'uqi

\version "2.18.2"

#(set-global-staff-size 17.82)

    \score{
      <<
        \new Voice = "Darcy" \relative c' {
          \autoBeamOff
          \compressFullBarRests
          \key d \major \time 2/2 \clef treble
          a'8 r r4 r2 %62
          R1*3 %63-65
          <<
            {
              r2 r4.\fermata
            }
            \new Lyrics \with {
%             \consists "Bar_engraver"
%             \override BarLine.transparent = ##t
              \override LyricText.font-shape = #'italic
              \override LyricText.self-alignment-X = #LEFT
            }
            {
              \lyricmode {
                \markup {
                  \line {
                    \fontsize #1 \upright \smallCaps Esther: "Hey! I don't feel 
so icky"
                  }
                }8*4
                "anymore!"8*3
              }
            }
          >>
          \override NoteHead.style = #'cross
          b8^\markup \fontsize #1 \smallCaps {Sasha and Chorus} %66
          b r r4 r2\bar "|." %67
        }
        \new Lyrics \lyricsto "Darcy" {
          \override LyricHyphen.minimum-distance = #1.0
          \set lyricMelismaAlignment = #CENTER
          long.
          Hur -- ray!
        }
      >>
    }

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