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please, consider the following two mwe-s:

the first: 

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\usepackage{cellspace}
\setlength\cellspacetoplimit{5pt}
\setlength\cellspacebottomlimit{5pt}
\addparagraphcolumntypes{X}
\usepackage{tabularx}

\begin{document}
\begin{tabularx}{3cm}{X Cc c}
    \hline
A   &   123   &   456   \\
    \hline
\end{tabularx}
\end{document}

the second:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\usepackage{cellspace}
\setlength\cellspacetoplimit{5pt}
\setlength\cellspacebottomlimit{5pt}
\addparagraphcolumntypes{X}
\usepackage{tabularx}

\begin{document}
\begin{tabularx}{3cm}{CX c c}
    \hline
A   &   123   &   456   \\
    \hline
\end{tabularx}
\end{document}

the first one work as expected, the second one throw error:

! Package array error: Illegal pream-token (\ecolumn): `c' used.

apparently specifier CX doesn't work as i expected. what i doing wrong?

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  • For me (TL 2016), it works if I write C{X} instead of X in the \begin{tabularx}{3cm}{...} spec.
    – frougon
    May 11, 2018 at 8:01
  • @frougon, indeed. so far this i dindn't found in mentioned packages documentation :-(
    – Zarko
    May 11, 2018 at 8:08
  • I don't find it obvious from the documentation either (where explicit specifiers with braces like p{3cm} are given where S{...} is mentioned), that's why I just said “it works for me” and didn't propose it as an answer...
    – frougon
    May 11, 2018 at 8:15

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Like all column specifiers that set the column width (p, m, b), the X column type requires a pair of braces:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\usepackage{cellspace}
\setlength\cellspacetoplimit{25pt}
\setlength\cellspacebottomlimit{25pt}
\addparagraphcolumntypes{X}
\usepackage{tabularx}

\begin{document}

\begin{tabularx}{3cm}{C{X} c c}
    \hline
A & 123 & 456 \\
    \hline
\end{tabularx}

\end{document}

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Edit: @UlrikeFischer's answer reminded me cellspace now lets you change the pre-specifier via an option of the package, so you're no more dependent on siunitx patch: if the part of siunitx concerning cellspace is removed, using, say:

\usepackage[column=O]{cellspace}

you can use {OX c c}as a preamble for the table, without braces around X (tested).

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  • now i wonder, why specifier SX works if i delete siunitx package. for this reason i mentioned it in question title. however, for all columns' specifiers whit prescribed column width, encapsulation into curly braces is necessary.
    – Zarko
    May 11, 2018 at 8:22
  • @Zarko: That's strange… A few years ago, neither would work without braces, if I remember well, and I didn't have the opportunity to test it recently. Maybe it (partially) works without braces since last year update?
    – Bernard
    May 11, 2018 at 8:29
  • hm, this doesn't work at me -(. error: ! File ended while scaning use of \__siunitx_tmp:w }. i have installed recent siunitx and with tables related packages
    – Zarko
    May 11, 2018 at 8:58
  • And did you update cellspace?
    – Bernard
    May 11, 2018 at 9:06
  • i have: cellspace 2017/08/12—v1.7, siunitx v2.7o, 2018-05-02. it seems that Ulrike has right: it is also necessary to fool siunitx.
    – Zarko
    May 11, 2018 at 10:34
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The code siunitx uses to change the cellspace column type from S to C seems to be faulty. If one let cellspace change the name and fool siunitx so that it doesn't interfere it works again:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[column=C]{cellspace}
\setlength\cellspacetoplimit{5pt}
\setlength\cellspacebottomlimit{5pt}
\addparagraphcolumntypes{X}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{siunitx}

\usepackage{etoolbox}
\cslet{[email protected]}{\somethingundefined} %fool siunitx 
\begin{document}
\begin{tabularx}{3cm}{CX c c}
    \hline
A   &   123   &   456   \\
    \hline
\end{tabularx}
\end{document}
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