... However, I have lived long enough to know that if the entire world does something one way, and I do it a different way, guess which one is going to have to change. All that having been said, in practice code is viewed in a compiler editor such as Lazarus or Delphi, where coloured syntax highlighting makes the operators blindingly obvious and as far as I can see eliminates any justification for spaces around them: 2_301737_210000000.png Likewise in the excellent Notepad++ coder's text editor you have full control over the syntax highlighting: 2_301735_120000000.png Notepad++ (free) is at: http://notepad-plus-plus.org/ Thanks for the link to the Pascal style guide. I have never seen that page before. But I disagreed with so much of it that I stopped reading half way through. Sigh. Martin. posted: 30 Nov 2019 23:11 from: Martin Wynne Hi Graeme, Looking at this again with an hour to go before the December deadline, I notice you have made a few changes from my Delphi original: 2_301737_210000000.png I ...