With any text editor, as long as you know the rules.
Learn the words
LilyPond does take some learning. Fortunately it is well-documented. Read at least the first two links at lilypond.org/manuals.html. Before you dive into a massive score, try notating a few short tunes. At any time, I have at least a dozen 32-bar folk tunes I can’t actually play because they’re bad photocopies of bad handwriting1.
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- If you don’t have any scrappy folk tunes that need rewriting, try hanging around at disreputable folk sessions and you’ll soon acquire some. [↩]