Put a comment in front of the word "lilypond" in line 7 of your code and it 
will work, in other words: you copied and pasted stuff that does not belong 
there.


> 
>     Sorry I should have been more specific.
> 
>     You may have been correct about an improper quote sign before, so I 
> decided
>     to start again. I'm running Lilypond v2.18.2. I copied the example from 
> the
>     manual accessed directly through Lilypond - it was a web manual.
> 

The proper reference would be e.g. the Notation reference, 2.4.1 or a URL like 
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-fretted-strings.en.html

>     This is the code that I used:
> 
>     \version "2.18.2"
> 
>     \header {
>     title = "Test"
>     }
> 
>     lilypond
> 
> 

The above line should be removed or commented.

Kind regards,
Michael
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