heh yeah that's true I'm not used to forums:)

as far as I'm concerned coding style may be ugly as long as I can easily read without wondering what going on:)
putting blank lines is another stupidty, I wrote some procedure which was 8 or 9 lines but after aplying their rules it doesn't fit on screen.
Nightmare!

hmm formating of this if condition got scrambled, but it's really hard to understand when you see it

I've seen many discussions about coding style, of course I have my own style but whenever I join new company I have to use their style.
It never was a problem for me until recently, I just can't get used to it. here's little sample:

  if (   (not FUsePrinter)
      or (    (FUsePrinter)
          and (dlgPrint.Execute)
          )
      ) then
  begin

also they put blank line before any keyword (for, while, begin, if, case...)
moreover they use:

if ... then
begin
...
end
else
begin
...
end;

everytime even with single line between begin/end.

I gouess I'll pass this article to my manager:)