# The Unity units library

This is the unity library, which is able to parse scientific unit specifications using a variety of syntaxes.

This is version unity-1.0, 2014 May 13

The library is released under the terms of the 2-clause BSD licence.

The four syntaxes are:

- the FITS specification, section 4.3 (doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201015362);
- OGIP memo OGIP/93-001 (postscript); and
- CDS's Standards for Astronomical Catalogues, Version 2.0.
- The VOUnits syntax. This is a subset of the FITS syntax, specified by the VOUnits specification.

Further details:

- For discussion and build instructions, see the README.
- For source and jar downloads, see the bitbucket download page.
- The source repository is on bitbucket.

Documentation:

- C library (generated using `doxygen`; download).
- Javadocs (download).
- Various grammar files and test cases.

See the release notes.

Norman Gray
2014 May 13