I don’t know if it’s a bug or feature, but slash regions are lacking a lot of basic options. I feel that slash regions are object on it’s own and don’t work as “music notation element“ rather as some quick shortcut for chain of immutable 1 bar objects.
I’ve attached basic slash notation from musescore - you can create this in no time in other notation softwares, in dorico it gets in ages. I get it that in other softwares this is just a note with different notehead, that’s why it’s so easy, but maybe dorico could treat slash regions as semi-notes OR at least have option to easy convert it?
Idea/workaround:
In musescore you have option “fill with slashes“ and it fills selected bars with quarter notes, without stems, with slashes as noteheads - that would be a handy shortcut. Many times i need to fill ie 16 bars, add a few articulations, change rhythm and thats it.
Why slash voice doesn’t work for me - I like the bar count in slash regions, especially usefull for jazz drum parts. Also slash voice is tedious - you need to go back and forth to engraving mode with show / hide the stems. Feels like a bad hack than a feture, definietly slows me down.
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Yep, not ideal at the moment.
What it needs is the ability to tie into the first slash of a region. That would solve 95% of my issues… 
In reality, it’s usually easiest to put the kicks above the slash region, with those coming from a dedicated cue staff.
But for this, the score needs to be setup accordingly, of course. And, I do realize it’s a different style as well.
Yeah, this aspect of it is tedious. I wish it were possible to access that Property in Write to save time. Or to be able to tie a slash voice to an unstemmed slash voice. (I guess in Write the entire note chain is selected so it still wouldn’t really work here.)
I typically enter the notes with stems first as it’s easier IMO to then go back and fill in the slashes once there are rests to select. There’s no avoiding the switch to Engrave to get rid of the stem on beat 1 in the 2nd bar though.
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I have pretty much given up on using slash regions in drum parts. I use an unstemmed slash voice, which allows for tying to stemmed slashes (making sure the pitches are the same). I usually enter a measure of unstemmed slashes first, select them, and then set slash position to 0 so that I can do a lot of copy/paste without having to reposition them.
