Tuplets won't stick

[Popeyelegs]

I use the tuplets toggle “3:2” on the left to add triplets, but it won’t stay. Every post says that we can continue to add triplets until we turn of the toggle, but I have to annoyingly go back and re-click the button for every set of triplets. Why won’t it stay on?

[tbabcock123]

Check out this thread:

Sticky Tuplets

Selecting a rest (or a note) and then invoking the triplet popover and then entering the notes (shift n and note value) will give the result you’ve described. What you need to do is invoke note input FIRST (shift-n) then, once you have the input caret, invoke the triplet popover and then the ratio (select the desired note value or type the note value into the popover after the ratio). Then, inputting the notes will result in sticky tuplets.

and from the manual:

Inputting tuplets