additional vertex measurement mode

Hello,
it would be very useful for me, is there would be an additional vertex measurement mode: I’d like to measure multiple single length with different start points of each measurement. At the moment, the multiple selection vertex measurement uses one point after the other. But I’d like to add the measurements of e.g. 5 different lengths with 5 different pair of start and end-points. Normally, I know, this can be done with the edge measurement, but sometimes the length I want to add is no edge !
Do you understand what I mean?
Best regards,
Michael