How to have headers, section headings, and figures expand into the margin?

Question

I am interested in the following page layout.

How to have headers in margins (up to margin)
Is it possible to start section headings from margin
How to set figures occupy the margins.

I can make an MWE as given below

    \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{scrbook}

\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}

\usepackage[calcwidth]{titlesec}

%\titleformat{\section}[leftmargin]
%{\normalfont
%\sffamily\bfseries\filleft}
%{}{0pt}{}
%\titlespacing{\section}
%{4pc}{1.5ex plus .1ex minus .2ex}{1pc}

\newlength\mylen
\setlength\mylen{\dimexpr\oddsidemargin+1in+\hoffset\relax}

\titleformat{\section}
  {\normalfont\Large\bfseries}
  {\llap{\hspace*{-\mylen}\thesection\hfill}}{0em}{}
  [{\makebox[\linewidth][l]{%
    \hspace*{-\mylen}\rule{\dimexpr\textwidth+\mylen\relax}{1pt}}}]

%titleps is alternate for fancyhdr
%
\usepackage{titleps}

%\newpagestyle{main}[\small\sffamily]{
\newpagestyle{main}{
\widenhead[4pc][0pt]{4pc}{0pt} %for scrbook
%\widenhead[6pc][0pt]{0pt}{6pc} %for scrbook
%\widenhead[0pt][6pc]{6pc}{0pt} %for scrartcl
\headrule
\sethead
[\textbf{\thepage}]
[\textsl{Title of the Book}]
[]
{}
{\textsl{\chaptertitle}}
{\textbf{\thepage}}
}
\pagestyle{main}

\renewpagestyle{plain}[\small\sffamily]{
%\footrule
%\setfoot[\textbf{\thepage}]
\setfoot
[]
[]
[]
{}
{}
%{\textbf{\thepage}}
{}
%
\sethead
[\textbf{\thepage}]
[\textsl{Title of the Book}]
[]
{}
{}
{\textbf{\thepage}}
}



\begin{document}

\chapter{Chapter title}

\clearpage

\section{Section title}


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\section{ Section title}

%
\begin{figure}[hb]
%\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.2\linewidth]{}
%\label{fig:p6a}
\caption{Figure caption}
\end{figure}
%


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\clearpage

\section{title}
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\end{document}

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I want change the figure position to the margin...

Possible Solution Place figures side by side, spill into outer margin

I made your title a bit more specific, hope you don’t mind. — doncherry, May 16 '13 at 06:22
You can have a look at tufte-latex, see for instance the sample book (360kB). — Tom Bombadil, May 16 '13 at 06:28
@egreg I have used "titleps" to increase the headers width... — sandu, May 17 '13 at 04:13
also you could take a look at floatrow package for caption (and figure i guess) placement... — guillem, May 17 '13 at 05:32
We have new package sidenotes with figure* and table* options — sandu, Apr 02 '14 at 09:31

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 10 '13 at 12:39

This fix includes several points:

1) \usepackage{calc}

2) New caption definition to make it left justified:

\newcommand\mycaption[1]{\caption{%
  \leftskip-\mylen#1\protect\rule{\textwidth-\mylen}{0in}}}

3) \leftskip the margin for the figure environment

\begin{figure}[hb]
\setlength\leftskip{\leftskip-\mylen}
\includegraphics[width=0.2\linewidth]{}
\mycaption{Figure caption}
\end{figure}

Caveat: I didn't fix your pre-existing problem with margins on page 3.

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{scrbook}

\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{calc}

\usepackage[calcwidth]{titlesec}

%\titleformat{\section}[leftmargin]
%{\normalfont
%\sffamily\bfseries\filleft}
%{}{0pt}{}
%\titlespacing{\section}
%{4pc}{1.5ex plus .1ex minus .2ex}{1pc}

\newlength\mylen
\setlength\mylen{\dimexpr\oddsidemargin+1in+\hoffset\relax}

\titleformat{\section}
  {\normalfont\Large\bfseries}
  {\llap{\hspace*{-\mylen}\thesection\hfill}}{0em}{}
  [{\makebox[\linewidth][l]{%
    \hspace*{-\mylen}\rule{\dimexpr\textwidth+\mylen\relax}{1pt}}}]

%titleps is alternate for fancyhdr
%
\usepackage{titleps}

%\newpagestyle{main}[\small\sffamily]{
\newpagestyle{main}{
\widenhead[4pc][0pt]{4pc}{0pt} %for scrbook
%\widenhead[6pc][0pt]{0pt}{6pc} %for scrbook
%\widenhead[0pt][6pc]{6pc}{0pt} %for scrartcl
\headrule
\sethead
[\textbf{\thepage}]
[\textsl{Title of the Book}]
[]
{}
{\textsl{\chaptertitle}}
{\textbf{\thepage}}
}
\pagestyle{main}

\renewpagestyle{plain}[\small\sffamily]{
%\footrule
%\setfoot[\textbf{\thepage}]
\setfoot
[]
[]
[]
{}
{}
%{\textbf{\thepage}}
{}
%
\sethead
[\textbf{\thepage}]
[\textsl{Title of the Book}]
[]
{}
{}
{\textbf{\thepage}}
}



\begin{document}

\chapter{Chapter title}

\clearpage

\section{Section title}


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\section{ Section title}

\newcommand\mycaption[1]{\caption{%
  \leftskip-\mylen#1\protect\rule{\textwidth-\mylen}{0in}}}
%
\begin{figure}[hb]
\setlength\leftskip{\leftskip-\mylen}
%\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.2\linewidth]{}
%\label{fig:p6a}
\mycaption{Figure caption}
\end{figure}
%

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\clearpage

\section{title}
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\end{document}

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How to have headers, section headings, and figures expand into the margin?

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