[texhax] Inserting space after each char in a string

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2 December 2010 Uwe Ziegenhagen wrote:

 > Hi there,
 > 
 > I need a command which allows me to insert a certain space after each
 > character of the string given as argument, but don't know how to accomplish.
 > 
 > I am looking for something like this
 > 
 > \textspace{\quad}{some long word} which produces then
 > 
 > s\quad o\quad m\quad e\quad etc..
 > 
 > Any ideas?

There is a macro \@tfor in the LaTeX kernel.  It's described in
source/latex/base/ltcntrl.dtx .  Don't know whether it works with
UTF-8 properly.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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