Common Attributes for all Elements

The following attributes are allowed on all elements:

TYPE

A string value. It specifies an ``engineering type'' and can be used for element selection.

APERTURE

A real vector with an arbitrary length which describes the element aperture. It is ignored by MAD-9, but it can be used in other programs.

other

All elements can have arbitrary additional attributes which are not defined below. Such attributes must have a name different from all defined attributes and single real values.

Only the TYPE attribute is used by MAD-9, but the SAVE command saves all attributes unless OPTION,MAD8 is active.