Dear All, I've just finished documenting a small library, available here: http://home.comcast.net/~jturkanis/format_lite/ It's a lightweight version of Reece Dunne's recently reviewed Output Formatters library. It was inspired by the discussion of Reece's library on this list and by the discussion of TR1 tuple i/o at the recent standards committee meeting in Redmond. ----- Format Lite is a lightweight, easy-to-learn framework for formatting data structures such as standard library containers and Boost tuples. It provides a reasonable degree of customizability with an emphasis on human-readable output formats useful for testing and debugging. A future version of Format Lite could be a candidate for incorporation into C++0x, to compensate for the lack of standard iostreams inserters and extractors for standard library containers, and to make existing inserters and extractors - such as those provided in <complex> - more flexible. Format lite provides three function templates: * boost::io::punctuate, used to specify punctuation sequences and options for line-breaks and indentation. * operator<<, used to insert ranges and tuple-like objects into standard output streams. * operator>>, used to extract ranges and tuple-like objects from standard input streams. ----- Best Regards, Jonathan