Text Formatting ⇒ Aligned Numbers in Margin

[Laurentius]

I'm using \marginpar to give section numbers from a certain edition and so want them to be aligned towards the text and have used

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\reversemarginpar
\marginpar{\hfill 4}

and I was just wondering whether this is the best solution, since it is somewhat cumbersome to have to fill in \hfill every time. No big problem, but if there happened to be an easy and better solution, I'd be glad to know.

[cgnieder]

Could you elaborate that a bit more and best post a minimal working example? At least to me it's not totally clear what you want...

It seems to, though, that the titlesec package would be what you need.

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\documentclass{scrartcl} 
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{kantlipsum}% create dummy text

\titleformat{\section}
{\normalfont\Large\sffamily\bfseries}
{\llap\thesection}{1.5pc}{}
\titlespacing{\section}
{-1.5pc}{2pc plus .1ex minus .2ex}{1pc}

\begin{document}

\section{A Test}
\kant[1]

\section{Yet Another Test}
\kant[2]

\end{document}

Regards