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Using the memoir class to typeset a book I have to change the delimiter between index items and the first page number.

The default looks like this:

Kant, Immanuel, 12, 13, 14, 15
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1,2,56

I would like to have it like this:

Kant, Immanuel 12, 13, 14, 15
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 1,2,56

How do I do this? Is this possible without using an extra package?

Here is a working example:

\documentclass[a4paper,10pt,twoside]{memoir}

\usepackage{polyglossia} 
\setmainlanguage[]{german}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage[indentunit=0.4cm, hangindent=0.4cm, font=footnotesize,justific=raggedright]{idxlayout}
\makeindex

\begin{document}
\chapter{Test, nothing else – Don't wast you time reading this!}
\Blindtext \index{Kant, Immanuel} \Blindtext \index{Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich} \Blindtext
\section{Test124}
\Blindtext \index{Kant, Immanuel} \index{Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich}

\printindex

\end{document}

As far as I found out, I have to use an index style file like Indexstyle.ist with the content:

delim_0 " "

But how to tell LaTeX to use it?

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    As always you have much greater chance of getting help if you post a minimal example that people can work from. BTW: this particular thing has nothing to do with memoir, but rather the indexing program you are using. As it so happens the memoir manual actually explain how one configure the common program `makeindex, see section 17.2.4 – daleif Dec 09 '14 at 18:09
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    @daleif Maybe I am just not smart enough to understand it, but I did not found any hint in thememoir handbook, how to do this. So I added a minimal example. – user5950 Dec 09 '14 at 18:48
  • @user5950 daleif said that memoir has no index capability, so you shouldn't tag the question with memoir: its manual gives an example configuration for makeindex / makeidx, but you should look at idxlayout manual for that kind of customization, since you use that package. – Astrinus Dec 09 '14 at 19:06
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    @Astrinus the documentation of idxlayout says that it can't change the delimiter. I thin I have to use a index style file, but I don't understand how to integrate it... – user5950 Dec 09 '14 at 19:10
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    @user5950 see http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/17226/61789 – Astrinus Dec 09 '14 at 19:20

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You've already found what the contents of the .ist file must be.

So, create a file named Indexstyle.ist with the following contents:

delim_0 " "

To obtain your .pdf file containing the index like you want, run in the order (let's suppose your main file is test.tex):

xelatex test

makeindex -s Indexstyle.ist test

xelatex test

You might have to repeat the last step twice. Obviously substitute xelatex with luatex or whatever engine you are using for it.

The result, as expected, will be:

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