Back to the original topic…I also would like to request an option to turn off tuplet brackets completely. I never use them in certain styles of music. Thank you.
@MarcLarcher : Would you mind explaining how you made your macro to hide tuplet brackets (and/or numbers)? I’ve tried but without success. The documentation about making macros is sketchy at best. I made a lua script and named it, but placing it in Library/Application Support/Steinberg/Dorico 5/Macros has no effect (also outside of the Macros folder) and it doesn’t appear in the jump bar.
OK, one has to put the lua file into Script Plug-ins, after which it appears in the Script menu, but how do you attach a keystroke to it or, better yet, a jump bar command? I could do it in Keyboard Maestro but I’d prefer to keep it within Dorico.
I don’t think you can create a key shortcut for the command, but you can create a Jump Bar alias.
The script itself just needs to be four lines:
local app=DoApp.DoApp()
app:doCommand([[Filter.Tuplets]])
app:doCommand([[UI.InvokePropertyChangeValue?Type=kTupletTextContent&Value=string: "kNone"]])
app:doCommand([[UI.InvokePropertyChangeValue?Type=kTupletBracketVisibility&Value=string: "kHidden"]])
… and that will hide tuplets in any selection.
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Thanks, Ben. I’ll save the script although, as the lua script does appear in the Scripts menu, I’ve assigned a KM key command to it which, handily, automatically gets copied and updated on all machines.
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Script menu is what I’ve been using all those years. Would I like to put a keyboard shortcut to it natively? Certainly. I might giving it a Keyboard maestro shortcut after all 
Nice, Ben! Since using KM I’d forgotten that one could also execute menu items from within the system. Handy for those without a macro program.
Greetings all! It’s April 2025 now … has this feature yet been implemented within Engraving or Layout Options?
I have been doing the following (see Screenshots) …
Procedure
- In ENGRAVE MODE (Cmd + 3), Cmd-Click the FIRST Triplet Beam (see Screenshot 1 below)
- Then Shift+Cmd+A to highlight ALL of the Triplet Beams if that is what you DO INDEED want to do (see Screenshot 2 below)
- Open the Properties Panel (Cmd + 8)
- Go/Scroll to “Tuplets” and click “Brackets” (see Screenshot 3 below)
This SHOULD change ALL of them! The Properties Panel is usually good for making changes ONLY on CERTAIN parts, etc., but in this case it does change get rid of the beams. However, it’d be nice to have a GLOBAL way of doing this (via Engraving Options) and ALSO keeping the Properties Panel approach should you wanna show them.
Changing the Bracket property did precisely what it was meant to: get rid of the brackets. At the bottom of the previous column of Properties, there is another one called Number. To fully hide a tuplet marking you need both.
You don’t need to do this in Engrave mode. The Tuplet Properties for Bracket and Number are accessible in Write mode.
Selecting the whole flow and filtering for Tuplets is the easiest way.
You could create a script to do it all, and then call it a “plug-in”. 
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