I guess they were right when they said that the cobbler's kids wear no shoes. It stumps me how one of the biggest, most powerful, and most resourceful software companies in the world would have a bunch of humans write a document on how to format source code, then have all their programmers read that document and memorize it to the point where they can abide by it every second of their work day. Formatting code is the kind of thing that a computer can do. Write a program that formats the code the way you want it to be formatted, and invoke it in the appropriate place. Preferably, make it invokable in people's IDEs, so that they can go conformant whenever they wish.