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A very similar issue has been asked quite a while ago. Although, my goal is not to put the page numbers in the header, but in the side margin. I am using the twoside and a5paper options in LaTeX Memoir.

Is there a similar approach to that one mentioned as an answer to the linked issue? I found a solution using TikZ here, but is there a way of achieving this directly by using Memoir?

TiMauzi
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I have modified the answer that you refer to.

% pagenumberprob.tex SE 561745   --- a modification of the answer to SE 446031
\documentclass[a5paper,twoside]{memoir}
\usepackage{picture}

\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames,svgnames,table]{xcolor}


%% Make headers what I want (don't say Chapter 1 chap 1 etc)
%\createmark{chapter}{left}{nonumber}{}{\hspace{3mm}}
%\createmark{section}{right}{shownumber}{}{\hspace{3mm}}


%% new page style
\makepagestyle{myvf}
\pagestyle{myvf}


%% line to show where page actually ends
%\makeheadrule{myvf}{\textwidth}{\normalrulethickness}


% use a zero sized picture to place the page number
\newcommand{\shiftpage}{%
  \begin{picture}(0,0){\put(0,-2.7\baselineskip){\textbf{\thepage}}}\end{picture}%
}


%% attempt at header where page number exists in the margin - alternating left and right
\makeevenhead{myvf}{\llap{\shiftpage\hspace{2\marginparsep}}\leftmark}{}{}
\makeoddhead{myvf}{}{}{\rightmark\rlap{\hspace{2\marginparsep}\shiftpage}}


\begin{document}


\chapter{Chap 1}


\section{sec 1}
\lipsum[1-15]


\section{sec 2}


\end{document}

You may want to adjust the location of the page numbers and their font.

Peter Wilson
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  • That worked perfectly! So I assume there is not really a good way to do it without using a picture to move the number around? Then this idea is actually quite similar to the TikZ solution linked above, right? – TiMauzi Sep 07 '20 at 20:26
  • @TiMauzi A zero sized picture is a good way to put things where you want them to be. – Peter Wilson Sep 08 '20 at 17:40