The width attribute may be used to capture measure width data for interchange with music printing systems that utilize this information for printing. On barLine the width attribute captures the width of the preceding measure.
<classSpec ident="att.width" module="MEI.shared" type="atts">
<desc xml:lang="en">Attributes that describe horizontal size.</desc>
<attList>
<attDef ident="width" usage="opt">
<desc xml:lang="en">Measurement of the horizontal dimension of an entity.</desc>
</attDef>
</attList>
<remarks xml:lang="en">
<p>The width attribute may be used to capture measure width data for interchange with
music
printing systems that utilize this information for printing. On <gi scheme="MEI">barLine</gi> the width
attribute captures the width of the preceding measure.</p>
</remarks>
</classSpec>