How to (correctly) insert large and slanted text

[ehud.behar at protonmail.com]

That is certainly an advance. Thanks a lot!
The output I get is

\textsl{\Large{}Here is some text in large size and slanted style.}

Any possibility to make it

{\textsl{\large Here is some text in large size and slanted style.}}

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On Sunday, January 16th, 2022 at 11:16 PM, Paul A. Rubin via lyx-users <lyx-users at lists.lyx.org> wrote:

> On 1/16/22 4:02 PM, tush via lyx-users wrote:
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>> Sure, I will take notice of the thread organization. I am new to mailing lists.
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>> Yes, the "unwanted formatting" refer to {\large\par}.
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>> Here is a (really) MWE.
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>> On 1/16/22 3:46 PM, tush via lyx-users wrote:
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>> The shape works the way I want, but the sizing rather gives the
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>> On Sunday, January 16th, 2022 at 10:43 PM, <
>> [ehud.behar at protonmail.com](http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users)
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>> Could you tell me how to apply the style so that the code is the way
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>> 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
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>> On 1/16/22 3:05 PM, tush via lyx-users wrote:
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>> I want to insert the following styled text to my document:
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>> {\large{\textsl{Some text goes here}}
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>> This is what a a LaTeX user would have inserted into his .tex file.
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>> If I select my text in LyX and right click it and choose Text Style
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>> I can apply the aforementioned features, i.e. slanted shape and
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>> large size, but the command LyX inserts is not the one above, but
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>> \textsl{\large{}Some text goes here}{\large\par}
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>> Is it possible to achieve what I first wrote, rather than inserting
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>> That last {\large\par} may have something to do with how you
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>> selected the text before applying the style change. In a test
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>> document, I did not encounter that. Comparing your ERT version with
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>> the customized style version, I can confirm the difference in the
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>> First, please bottom post.
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>> Second, does the "unwanted formatting" refer to {\large\par}? If so, we
>> would need a minimal example. It would need to be a self-contained
>> document (your previous MWE had include commands for child documents not
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>> possible. Every package you add, font or language change you make, etc.
>> makes it a bit less likely that someone on the list has all the packages
>> necessary to compile your MWE.
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>> If by "unwanted formatting" you mean that you really want the LaTeX
>> commands entered in the order you used in your ERT, I doubt that is
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>> Paul
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> As I suspected, the issue is that the text you are formatting occurs at the very end of a paragraph. The following is a bit "hacky" but solves the problem. First, add a space after the end of the text. Then select the text (excluding that extra space) and make the style change. The trailing space on the first line is harmless, but feel free to delete it if you wish.
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> Paul
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