If you use \lyricsto or \addlyrics, than the durations of each lyrics syllable is completely determined by the rhythm of the music voice that you have attached the lyrics to, so in that situation a \skip X will just denote a space with the same duration as the corresponding note, just as you have observed. However, if you don't use \lyricsto or \addlyrics and explicitly specify the durations for each syllable, then \skip 1 will work exactly as you expected.
There was a recent discussion on the mailing list on this topic and I think it resulted in some clarifications of the manual, however, I'm not certain if those changes were done also in the manual for version 2.4.x.
/Mats
Charles Gran wrote:
In lyricmode \skip 1 goes the next note in a series of 8th notes? I can't seem to get this number to represent anything.
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