unitsofmeasurement/uom-guide

Units of Measurement Guide Book

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[Q] Documentation for upgrade path from jscience

Hi there, I've tried a few times now to convert from jscience for unit parsing, but I haven't been able to find the correct way forward to create a generalized unit parser that can handle non-SI units, as well as having formatted strings for those non-SI units.

Is the correct way to do this using the SimpleUnitFormat and registering aliases for everything the default implementation doesn't handle? Units like Fahrenheit and mmHg are definitely not within the UCUM space (and the UCUM format doesn't handle unicode), the systems-unicode package doesn't seem to provide the parsing capabilities, and I'm not entirely sure what the EBNF format is but unit text coming in from various external sources definitely isn't going to be following a regular grammar.

Also, the different unit system packages do overlap for units, how do I figure out which unit system package is best for which unit? Can I use any of them?

Thank you.

Chapter about multi-radix/compound quantities

Add a chapter how to deal with compound quantities.

Add a chapter about contribution here

Bad link to UoM Guide hosting on GH repo page

The Github project page for the Guide at https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/uom-guide points the unsuspecting and unwary noob to the published version of the guide at a link (https://www.gitbook.com/book/unitsofmeasurement/uom-guide/details) that frustratingly leads only to GitBooks insistent sales schpiel. For those of us way behind the curve on GitBook's unfriendly shenanigans, this leads, in turn, to a frustrating half-hour of searching around the Internet for the actual published content.

Might this link be updated to the correct one: https://unitsofmeasurement.gitbook.io/uom-guide/ thus saving the blood-pressure and time of millions of future users. ;)

Even better: might said content be hosted somewhere friendlier and more open than GitBook? I'm willing to assist if I can.

Chapter on formatting

Write about equality

Copy/Move relevant portions of the Equality documentation to the [UoM Guide]
(https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/uom-guide) from https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/indriya/wiki/Unit-Equivalence