How to (correctly) insert large and slanted text

[ehud.behar at protonmail.com]

Could you tell me how to apply the style so that the code is the way I want it to be?

I selected the whole line, maybe lyx sees it as a paragraph.

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On Sunday, January 16th, 2022 at 10:38 PM, Paul A. Rubin via lyx-users <lyx-users at lists.lyx.org> wrote:

> On 1/16/22 3:05 PM, tush via lyx-users wrote:
>
>> I want to insert the following styled text to my document:
>>
>> {\large{\textsl{Some text goes here}}
>>
>> This is what a a LaTeX user would have inserted into his .tex file.
>>
>> If I select my text in LyX and right click it and choose Text Style -> Customized...
>>
>> I can apply the aforementioned features, i.e. slanted shape and large size, but the command LyX inserts is not the one above, but rather
>>
>> \textsl{\large{}Some text goes here}{\large\par}
>>
>> Is it possible to achieve what I first wrote, rather than inserting ERT commands?
>
> That last {\large\par} may have something to do with how you selected the text before applying the style change. In a test document, I did not encounter that. Comparing your ERT version with the customized style version, I can confirm the difference in the LaTeX commands but see no difference in the output. Is there a reason why you are unhappy with what LyX enters?
>
> Paul
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