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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