Addmargin on even and odd pages

Question

I have large outer margins and I want some time more text, on the left for even pages and on the right for odd pages. I tried:

\begin{addmargin*}
...
\end{addmargin*}

But the result is good only on the first page. Can anyone help me?

Here is my MWE (after trying to implement solutions in Dennis's answer):

\documentclass{scrbook} 
\usepackage[inner=1.5 cm,outer=5.5cm]{geometry} 
\usepackage{lipsum} 
%\usepackage{scrextend} % load it if you're not using a KOMA class 
\usepackage{lipsum} 
\begin{document} 
\chapter{One} 
\lipsum[1-6] 
\section{One-one} 
\lipsum[1-3] 
\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{15.5pt} 
\setlength{\evensidemargin}{15.5pt} 
\lipsum[2-11] 
\lipsum[1-12] 
\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0pt} 
\setlength{\evensidemargin}{0pt} 
\section{One-two} 
\lipsum[1-3] 
\end{document}

Answer 1

I think all problems are now solved (also with the header) with this code:

\documentclass[twoside]{scrbook}
\usepackage{adjmulticol}
\usepackage{xcolor,graphicx,lipsum,multicol}
\usepackage[paperwidth=17.5cm,paperheight=23cm, inner=1.5cm,outer=5.5cm,top=3cm,bottom=3cm]{geometry}
\newenvironment{TwoCol}{\small\begin{adjmulticols}{2}{0cm}{-4cm}}{\end{adjmulticols}}
\newenvironment{OneCol}{\small\begin{adjmulticols}{1}{0cm}{-4cm}}{\end{adjmulticols}}
\makeindex

\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\setlength{\headheight}{15pt}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{2pt}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhfoffset[LE]{4cm}%
    \fancyhfoffset[RO]{4cm}%
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{\markboth{#1}{}}
\renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{\markright{\thesection\ #1}}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[LE,RO]{\bfseries\thepage}
\fancyhead[LO]{\bfseries\rightmark}
\fancyhead[RE]{\bfseries\leftmark}
\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
\fancyhead{} % get rid of headers
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} % and the line
}

\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\tableofcontents
\mainmatter
\chapter{One}

\lipsum[1]\marginpar{\includegraphics[width=3cm]{pseudosfera.png}}
\section{One-one}
\begin{OneCol}
\lipsum[1-15]
\end{OneCol}
\marginpar{\textcolor{cyan}{Mauris ut leo. Cras
viverra metus rhoncus sem. Nulla et lectus vestibulum urna
fringilla ultrices. Phasellus eu tellus sit amet tortor gravida
placerat. Integer sapien est, iaculis in, pretium quis, viverra
ac, nunc.}}\lipsum[1]
\lipsum[2]
\lipsum[1]\marginpar{\includegraphics[width=3cm]{pseudosfera.png}}
\section{One-two}
\lipsum[1]

\begin{TwoCol}
\lipsum[2-12]
\end{TwoCol}

\lipsum[3-4]
\end{document}

I show some page of output:

Answer 2

To expand upon MMA's suggestion, you could probably fix the issue by using the geometry package with the option outermargin=n units for whatever value of n and unit you want. Although, you might want to check out this question on alternating margins in the book class if you're having problems implementing the geometry solution.

If for whatever reason you don't want to use geometry, then vmargin might be a barebones option for you.

You can find a whole host of options by consulting the LaTeX wikibook section on page layout, specifically the margin section of that article.

UPDATE:

I'm still not 100% sure what you're looking for, but here are two attempts using geometry.

2 inch outer margins (right for odd pages, left for even):

\documentclass{scrbook} 
\usepackage{lipsum} 
\usepackage[outermargin=2 in]{geometry}
\begin{document} 
\chapter{One} 
\lipsum[1-6] 
\section{One-one} 
\lipsum[1-3] 
\lipsum[2-11] 
\lipsum[1-12] 
\section{One-two} 
\lipsum[1-3] 
\end{document}

A somewhat absurd example to show changing margins on specific pages:

\documentclass{scrbook} 
\usepackage{lipsum} 
\usepackage[outermargin=2 in]{geometry}
\begin{document} 
\chapter{One} 
\lipsum[1-6] 
\section{One-one}
\newgeometry{outermargin= 5 in} 
\lipsum[1-3] 
\lipsum[2-11] 
\restoregeometry 
\lipsum[1-12] 
\section{One-two} 
\lipsum[1-3] 
\end{document}

Here we use \newgeometry to override what was set in the preamble (in this case, 2 inch outer margins) and specify a new option (in this case, the somewhat absurd 5 inch margins). \restoregeometry allows you to revert back to what was set in the preamble.

Both of these solutions, however, do alter the placement of the header/footer as you noted in comments.

UPDATE 2:

Here is an option using the changepage package that doesn't change the placement of headers and footers:

\documentclass{scrbook} 
\usepackage{lipsum} 
\usepackage{changepage} 
\begin{document} 
\chapter{One} 
\begin{adjustwidth}{}{1in}  % <----                  
Dummy text to test. \lipsum[1]
\end{adjustwidth} 
\pagebreak 
\section{One-one}
\begin{adjustwidth}{1in}{}                  
Dummy text to test. \lipsum[1]
\end{adjustwidth} 
\end{document}

This option allow you to manually set the width of a block of text. Doing this allows you to adjust the width of the text included in the adjustwidth environment. So long as the environment stays on a single page, it gets the desired result (I think). But obviously a somewhat of a pain of a solution.

Answer 3

I found incompatibility with the fancyhdr package. So I dont use it. Making inspiration from this post Problem with odd/even margins when environment crosses page boundaries answer, my solution is:

\documentclass[twoside]{scrbook}

\usepackage{adjmulticol}
\usepackage{lipsum,multicol}
\usepackage[paperwidth=17.5cm,
            paperheight=23cm,
            inner=1.5cm,
            outer=5.5cm,
            top=3cm,
            bottom=3cm]{geometry}

\newenvironment{TwoCol}{\small\begin{adjmulticols}{2}{0cm}{-4cm}}{\end{adjmulticols}}

\newenvironment{OneCol}{\small\begin{adjmulticols}{1}{0cm}{-4cm}}{\end{adjmulticols}}

\makeindex

\begin{document}

\frontmatter

\tableofcontents

\mainmatter

\chapter{One}

\lipsum[1]

\section{One-one}

\begin{OneCol}
\lipsum[1-15]
\end{OneCol}

\lipsum[1-5]

\section{One-two}

\lipsum[1-3]

\begin{TwoCol}
\lipsum[2-12]
\end{TwoCol}


\lipsum[3-4]

\end{document}

And here is a part of the result (picture and side note added):