Morten Høgholm wrote: > On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Joseph Wright > <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> I was rather expecting \c_space_token to save the day, but it didn't. >> Hence my confusion: \space isn't a LaTeX3 name. > > Correct. \c_space_token is an implicit space token (because it is > assigned with \let:NN) and a explicit space char is needed. > Okay, but \space is a user macro, not a programmer one. So is there a LaTeX3 explicit space? For example, trying \~ leads to disaster (at least in \iow_expanded:Nn). -- Joseph Wright Tel. 01604 810094 Morning Star Mobile 07974 148180 2 Dowthorpe End Earls Barton Northants NN6 0NH