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I'm trying to make a piece of text fade out to white and another piece of text fade in from white.

This is how it should look like:
FadeText.png
I can do this with HTML and CSS in two simple steps:

Create a box with a vertical gradient from alpha to white (for fade out).
Place this box over ...

It's been a week and there was no response. Not even a hint. Didn't I elaborate enough on the issue? Was I vague at some point? Did I chose the wrong Forum section for this question?

Hi!

The forum has changed it's categories since last time I visited so I hope I am on the right one.

I am trying to combine the Verse package with the Parcolumns one for a poetry book.

Problem is that whenever I use a verse snipet inside \colchunk, the empty lines do not show up at all and the ...

Very beautifully explained :) A big thanks :D

Here is a couple of issues left.

I tried changing from Book to Article and putting a \raggedbottom at the premable but I still get the the Underfull \hbox warnings. I can live with it though, I don't mind a few warnings if they are not important.

I ...

Whoah! You revised my whole layout! Thanks! :D

I had assembled that layout with bits an pieces I found through google searching.

Well, first of, I installed Texlive. I mounted the ISO and run that script, I can't believe how easy it was. I should have done that a long time ago.

I still have a few ...

I have a two-column layout.

Let's say I am on the left column. If I exceed the vertical length of the page then the text continues on the right column. I would like it to continue on the left column of the next page.

I want this because the layout what I have imagined (and I try to implement) has ...

Yes, it does answer both. Thanks again.

Increase the value of \headheight; use something like
\setlength\headheight{85pt}


That saved the day! Thank you :)

I have two more questions:

1. What is causing this problem? Why does it appear only on the firt page? Help me understand this.

2. How did you knew that 85pt was just the right ...

I am using the package fancyhdr and I am trying to add space between the chead's text and the vertical line under the text. I inserted a \vspace{2cm} inside \chead{} which does push down the line, but doesn't push down the text. At least not in the first page. Everything works as I wanted on the ...