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<unit>

A unit of measurement is a definite magnitude of a physical quantity, defined and adopted by convention or by law, that is used as a standard for measurement of the same physical quantity. Any other value of the physical quantity can be expressed as a simple multiple of the unit of measurement. For example, length is a physical quantity, and metre is a unit of length that represents a definite predetermined length.


The node <units> in the *.spd file can be used to change some defaults or to add specialized units, which in principle are not supported. The structure and contents of this subtree <units> requires to have the format as further detailed in this document. The following attributes are available:

  • n - name
  • pn - printed name (decorated and translated)
  • p - Priority of the unit, it is regarded as more important than others units. The possible values for 'p' are 1, 2 and 3, as follows,

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