How do I create this in Dorico? It is in 3/4 meter, the measure has triplets spread to 1 1/2 beats. There are 6 eighth notes per measure. These need to be grouped together in triplets.
1 1/2 beats in a 3/4 are three 8th notes / quavers, not triplets. One triplet is equal to one beat.
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As @Vadian indicates, 6 eighth notes in a 3/4 bar are just eighth notes, not tuplets. If you want them beamed 3+3, you can make that change with Split Beam/Beam Together.
If you have many bars of this in a row, then you can change the time signature in the second bar to (6/8) which will give you a hidden 6/8, and then from that point on, the eighth notes will automatically be beamed in this way.
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Disagree these triplets are spread to 1 1/2 beats or 2 dotted quarter notes in a 3/4 measure. They are syncopated.
They have a syncopated feel, but they are not tuplets. A 3/4 bar is made up of 3 quarter notes, or 6 eighth notes. A 6/8 bar is also made up of 6 eighth notes, but they’re divided up and stressed differently.
An eighth note triplet is three eighth notes in the space of two – in the space of one quarter. So two triplets would take up only two quarters, not three.
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Well.. if you insist on writing 2 eighth note triplets in a 3/4 bar you’d first have to input a quarter note duplet and add two eighth note triplets nested in there. That notation would raise quite a few eyebrows (and probably hands at rehearsals). But the screenshot in your example is one beat short.
Why not simply use accents to emphasize the division? That could complement or even replace the beaming.
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With due respect this is not opinion based, it’s math 
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Or even just simple tuplets 3:3e… But I agree that this would be a very odd notation!
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Thank you. This is actually making a jazz fell. In the 70’s guitarist used this. I have a midi files from people who recorded their tunes this way. 6/8 works put the tempo gets messed up with a steady beat for the 1 & 2 in other measures. The pulse is steady 3 for the throughout the piece. Thank you all again.
Nobody is disagreeing with the music, or the feel that you’re after. It’s simply a matter of how to notate it properly so that other people understand what you mean. Notating this as triplets is simply wrong. Beaming regular 8ths together 3+3 is the way to go.
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