Different margins for text and figures

Question

Is it possible to have it so that the text has smaller left and right margins than figures? I am using memoir.

Would you please be more specific? What diagrams are you referring to? — egreg, Oct 07 '12 at 12:52
@azetina: Can I use geometry to set and reset the margins before and after every figure? — Neil G, Oct 07 '12 at 12:55
When you say reset the margins, what are you specifically talking about? Using stuff like \makebox or \centering affect the margins of the figures. — azetina, Oct 07 '12 at 12:59
Does this help: http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/13451/10898 and probably using an ifelse statement to determine whether or not there is a figure or not. — azetina, Oct 07 '12 at 13:03
@azetina: That looks right. Is that solution compatible with memoir? — Neil G, Oct 07 '12 at 13:14
memoir has the adjustwidth environment for changing the margins locally. — Torbjørn T., Oct 07 '12 at 13:30
See if http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/74948/automatically-change-the-text-width-for-all-table-environments-using-memoir helps — Torbjørn T., Oct 07 '12 at 13:32
The geometry package should not be used with memoir. memoir include its own commands to deal with these things. — Jesper Ipsen, Oct 07 '12 at 14:40

score 11 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

The method described by Werner in his answer can be extended to figures also to make captions spill outside margins. To make figures go beyond margins and keep them at center, you can use adjustbox package.

\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx} %remove demo in your file.
\usepackage[export]{adjustbox}
\usepackage{letltxmacro}
\LetLtxMacro{\originalfigure}{\figure}
\LetLtxMacro{\originalendfigure}{\endfigure}
\renewenvironment{figure}[1][htb]%
  {\originalfigure[#1]% \begin{figure}[htb]
   \begin{adjustwidth*}{-.5in}{-.5in}
  }%
  {\end{adjustwidth*}\originalendfigure}% \end{figure}


\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\begin{figure}[htb]
\adjincludegraphics[width=1.2\textwidth,center]{figure}
\caption{This is a one big caption that may run in to more than two lines without any trouble to us in setting more margins}\label{fig:figure-chow}
\end{figure}
\lipsum[1]
%
\end{document}

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Perfect. This is exactly what I wanted! – Neil G Oct 07 '12 at 17:41 — Neil G, Oct 07 '12 at 17:41

Different margins for text and figures

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