Hi, I've read http://www.boost.org/doc/html/program_options/howto.html#id1592624 about Non-conventional Syntax but it doesn't solve my problem. For a program I have to bypass some options to the underlying library (to be concrete Qt), where some of the Qt specific options I have to parse for my program too. Qt's QApplication recognizes cmd line arguments in a style of '-command' which differs from long option style of boost.program_options. Therefore the '-command' should be valid, the '--command' not! How can I get this? Thanks, Olaf