Main rules

  • Units have to be used only after their declaration.
  • While defining and using units, the system name is displayed in the unit index.
  • The unit system cannot be defined explicitly. It is declared during its first use.
  • Units can be declared in any part of the document.
  • Units declared in the include files are considered declared above the first line of the current document. Therefore, they can be used beginning from the first edit line.
  • When the unit system is not declared, the metric system is used by default.
  • If you perform calculations in a particular unit system, you must declare all the units used in your expression.
  • While using the unit declared in one system, there is no need to declare another units system if it is the same.
  • Conversion of the result value to a certain system is possible if all the expression units exist in the target system.
  • In unit redefinition, the rule of consequence of expressions in the document occurs: the expression uses the unit declaration located in the nearest upper position.
  • Any system unit can be defined in terms of any other unit of any other system.
  • Built-in units can also be redefined.