Page Layout ⇒ Getting paragraph numbers in the margin when using the reledmac pkg (\linenummargin has no effect)

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I want numbered paragraphs and I want the numbers to be in the left margin. Example:

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\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage[noend]{reledmac} % needed for \pstart & \pend to number paragraphs
\renewcommand{\thepstart}{{\textsuperscript{\fbox{\arabic{pstart}}}}} % ← this puts a box around the paragraph numbers
\linenummargin{outer} % ← the default is "left" which should put the numbers in the left margin (it does not), so trying "outer"
\begin{document}
  \numberlinefalse\numberpstarttrue\beginnumbering
  \pstart
    yada yada lorem ipsum this is a paragraph
  \pend
  This is an unnumbered paragraph to show where the body is. Notice that the position of the number is not in the margin.
  \endnumbering  
\end{document}

No matter what value is passed to \linenummargin, it's ignored (left, right, center, inner, outer). My hack is to add a \hspace{-1.5em} in the redefinition of \thepstart. But that's flawed because the negative hspace needs to be bigger for single digit paragraph numbers than for double digit numbers.

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This hack gives the effect I'm after:

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\renewcommand{\thepstart}{\makebox[0pt][r]{\raisebox{2pt}{\scriptsize\fbox{\arabic{pstart}}}\hspace{1em}}}

The code is kind of ugly but I'm going to run with this.. unless someone knows a less hacky ledmac-devs-approved approach.