The choice is either to notate it in great detail, which may be of academic interest but is almost unreadable for the purpose of playing the tune, or simply to regard the notation as a basic framework for the tune.

Not entirely novice-friendly, that. Put it this way, I've learnt Harvest Home undotted - and Soldier's Joy. (If I was meant to play 3/1 why didn't you write dotted-quaver-semiquaver? If I was meant to play 2/1 why didn't you write it in triplets?)

H'mph. I'll have to unlearn 'em now...