A way of notating hornpipes that's not too hard to read, and corresponds pretty closely to the actual rhythm I want to play, is alternate dotted and undotted quavers. That is 20/16, unfortunately, but it is the only way I can get Noteworthy to play anything that sounds like a hornpipe. Dotted quavers with semiquavers (a 3:1 ratio) are far too uneven - even triplets in 12/8 (a 2:1 ratio) don't sound like a hornpipe to me. So a 3:2 ratio is about right.
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