confusion about 'break multi measure rest'

I think the existing English text is fine personally. The word "break" implies this option affects only passages in which the measure would otherwise have been part of an mmrest in the first place. A different verb like "start mmrest" would imply that setting this option could cause an mmrest that wouldn't otherwise have existed to be created. Sure, you could add clarification that the break is to occur at the beginning of the measure; do we then do the same for adding clefs, time signatures, key signatures, rehearsal marks, tempo marks, etc? There are two choices for where the break occurs, and I think we've picked the more logical one, but anyone who is surprised would surely figure this out in a matter of seconds (just as they do with clefs et al) and adjust their thinking accordingly?

FWIW, the real problem is that the attribute is attached to the measure when in a sense, it's *logically* attached to the barline that starts the measure. But I'm not saying we should change this; just pointing out that this is the source of the confusion.

EDIT: I should add that I tried to read the post in the German forum, but Google translate made nonsense out of it, and while I remember a fair amount of grammar from learning German in school, I retained essentially no vocabulary :-)

Barlines are indeed a bit of a mess. Logically, each measure has two barlines - a start and end barline. And I would prefer independent control over these. Of course, since one measure's end is the next measure's start if both are on the same system, the control can't be completely independent - one will have to take precedence. Finale makes it so end barlines win on case of conflict. But if the measures are on separate systems, then you have full independent control. MuseScore for 2.0 simulats to this so e extent, well enough to handle the most important cases, but it's more complex than what I described.

Anyhow, point being, barlines are special and it's probably best not to think too much about their behvior when looking models for how others things should behave. But if MuseScore *were* to move to having the "break" option be attached to barlines, a simple a checkbox in Inspector would do the trick, and the advantage would be that it would be unambiguous. Still, I don't think it's worth it implememtation-wise (and re-training of existing users) just to avoid the minor momentary confusion that might exist.

Again, I say this not understand the discussion in the German forum. I get the sense he has a mor fundamental problem with mmrests? Sime special unsuaul thing he wants to do that just isn't possible, or a more basic misunderstanding of how the whole things works? Surely that whole discussion wasn't just about whether the break occurs with the measure start or measure end?