How to push part of a line outside the margin?

Question

I want one particular line to exceed the margin like this...

    My text
    My text
 My special Text.
    My text.
 My special text.

How can I achieve this?

I have tried to use

\reversemarginpar
\marginpar{My} special text

But it adds the 'My' on the left edge of the page. Thanks.

Answer 1

As a start-of-a-paragraph "undent", this is easily achieved using a \makebox[0pt][r]{..} alignment:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
My text. \par
My text. \par
\makebox[0pt][r]{My }special Text. \par
My text. \par
\noindent\llap{My }special text.
\end{document}

This sets the text in a box of width 0pt (avoiding overfull \hboxes) and right-aligned, pushing it into the left margin. You could also use \llap, which does the same, but you need to "start" the paragraph first before this takes effect.

It would also be possible to allow this "undent" mid-paragraph.