: How could you notate a measure where you have "cut-off" triplets? So, let's say you have a measure of 3/4. Like the following: Then you have a triplet in the next measure, like this: How would I "cut off" the

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I think this is what you're trying to do:

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Thinking "out of the box", if you can allow yourself to change the first measure time signature, you may consider:
X: 1
K: Bb
M: 9/8
L: 1/16
V:Vc clef=bass
C,3D,3 E,3(D,3 D,3) C,3 | [M: 2/4] C4B,4 |]

or
X: 1
K: Bb
M: 9/8
L: 1/16
V:Vc clef=bass
C,3D,3E,3 D,6 C,3 | [M: 2/4] C4B,4 |]

This of course depends on the rest of the composition. The dotted eights might be annoying to read, but might be easier than irrational meters.

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The simplest solution given by the Wikipedia Irrational Meters entry. You would just write it as two half-notes, which, given the 2/3 time signature, would be understood as two thirds-of-a-whole-note.

for example, one beat in ?4?5 is written as a normal quarter note, four quarter notes complete the bar, but the whole bar lasts only ?4?5 of a reference whole note, and a beat ?1?5 of one (or ?4?5 of a normal quarter note).

Another possibility, from Wikipedia's Tuplet:Notation entry would be to notate the tuplet using a [3:2] ratio indication, meaning "three of this type of note comprises two beats", but you'd only have two notes present within the tuplet.