Typeset material outside the logical page

Question

I use the geometry package to define the physical page and the logical page sizes. For editing purposes I would like to print some material outside the logical page, i.e, outside the crop marks.

I have seen that on the texbook, where Knuth prints some words (for indexing??) outside the crop marks.

I did not find any package that can do that. The packages that print notes they put them in the margin. I would like to have a command that put the material at the same height that \marginpar does; and another that put the material at the top of the page.

I am using LuaLaTeX so, lua solutions are also welcome.

EDIT 1

@egreg solution work to put the notes in the right margin. I am trying to put them in the left side with the modified version:

\newcommand{\extramarginpar}[1]{%
\marginpar[\makebox[0pt][l]{\hspace{1.2cm}\parbox[t]{1.5cm}{#1}}]{}%
}

but I get the error:

! Argument of \@makebox has an extra }.
<inserted text> 
                \par

I checked the makebox command but I can find where is the error.

Perhaps crop package can be useful. It allows you to define your own crop marks, and you could hack that to insert any material there. — JLDiaz, Mar 20 '13 at 15:35
You can probably just increase \pdfpagewidth after using geometry which TeX doesn't really use for anything but which the pdf reader uses to clip the content. — David Carlisle, Mar 20 '13 at 16:38
Shouldn't the title be 'outside the logical page'? Outside the physical page is when my inkjet printer spews ink on the wall. ;-) — Alan Munn, Mar 20 '13 at 18:41

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 20 '13 at 18:02

This is a proof of concept:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{a4paper,
  layout=a5paper,
  layouthoffset=3.075cm,
  layoutvoffset=4.35cm,
  showcrop,
}

\newcommand{\extramarginpar}[1]{%
  \marginpar{\makebox[0pt][l]{\hspace{2.2cm}\parbox[t]{3cm}{#1}}}%
}

\begin{document}
This has a comment\extramarginpar{outside}
\end{document}

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Typeset material outside the logical page

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