Hi Bertolt,
A new version of the patch can be found in the Boost Sandbox File Vault (http://boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net/vault/) under /bmildner/program_optins.
It has (hopefully) all the changes discussed so far, except for the detailed formatting desciption.
I've reviewed the patch and think it's almost ready. Remaining questions: 1. You use 2-space indent while the rest of the file uses 4-space. Do you mind if I auto-reformat this? 2. I don't think that passing line width as construct parameter to options_descripton is optimal. It's not really property of options description. A better design would be do only line_width parameter to the options_description::print method. What do you think? 3. Do you plan to add detailed formatting description. If you don't have the time now, no problem, I'll commit the patch anyway. - Volodya