Re: predefined mandolin tuning wrong?

[David Kastrup]

Please don't reply off-list.  That makes it impossible for others to
chip in.  I am not going to dissect the code dump you included in your
reply.  I don't think it makes sense for others to even try, so I am not
including it in this reply copied to the list.

BB <address@hidden> writes:

> I found a very lengthy lilypond code (about 200 lines) in the internet

You'll find that "the internet" contains a lot of partly dubious advice
for a lot of versions.

> and tried to convert it from guitar to mandolin. For testing I
> shortened the original to
>
>
> \version "2.12.3"

And 2.12.3 is positively ancient.  Not many people will be able to give
you advice for that version, and if you are indeed _using_ version 2.12,
you should really upgrade.

Please consult the manual coming with your version of LilyPond.  It will
most likely also be found "on the internet", but make sure to consult
the version corresponding to the version you have installed.

If you take some random code floating on the internet not corresponding
to your version of LilyPond and randomly outcomment lines until arriving
at "valid" input, the chances of having working code are rather small.

So please start from the LilyPond manual.  One link to the respective
chapter for LilyPond 2.18, the current stable version, would be
<URL:http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-fretted-strings#predefined-fret-diagrams>
which includes an example for mandoline.

-- 
David Kastrup