diff --git a/src/paragraph.C b/src/paragraph.C
index 22626a73a5..05b480c2b5 100644
--- a/src/paragraph.C
+++ b/src/paragraph.C
@@ -1097,7 +1097,7 @@ bool Paragraph::simpleTeXOnePar(Buffer const & buf,
 			// simpleTeXSpecialChars ignores spaces if
 			// style->pass_thru is false.
 			if (i != body_pos - 1) {
-				if (pimpl_->simpleTeXBlanks(bparams,
+				if (pimpl_->simpleTeXBlanks(
 						*(runparams.encoding), os, texrow,
 						i, column, font, *style))
 					// A surrogate pair was output. We
diff --git a/src/paragraph_pimpl.C b/src/paragraph_pimpl.C
index 70b21edfe6..d9d7091560 100644
--- a/src/paragraph_pimpl.C
+++ b/src/paragraph_pimpl.C
@@ -385,8 +385,7 @@ int Paragraph::Pimpl::latexSurrogatePair(odocstream & os, value_type c,
 }
 
 
-bool Paragraph::Pimpl::simpleTeXBlanks(BufferParams const & bparams,
-                                       Encoding const & encoding,
+bool Paragraph::Pimpl::simpleTeXBlanks(Encoding const & encoding,
                                        odocstream & os, TexRow & texrow,
                                        pos_type & i,
 				       unsigned int & column,
diff --git a/src/paragraph_pimpl.h b/src/paragraph_pimpl.h
index 7d4aba0c58..86acf1028f 100644
--- a/src/paragraph_pimpl.h
+++ b/src/paragraph_pimpl.h
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ public:
 	/// Output a space in appropriate formatting (or a surrogate pair
 	/// if the next character is a combining character).
 	/// \return whether a surrogate pair was output.
-	bool simpleTeXBlanks(BufferParams const &, Encoding const &,
+	bool simpleTeXBlanks(Encoding const &,
 	                     odocstream &, TexRow & texrow,
 			     pos_type & i,
 			     unsigned int & column,