How to (correctly) insert large and slanted text

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Am Sonntag, dem 16.01.2022 um 18:00 -0500 schrieb Paul A. Rubin via
lyx-users:
> As far as how the braces are placed, I don't think there is any way
> to change that other than ERT.

The reason is that it is not easy for LyX to guess what follows. With a
character, a space needs to be inserted to terminate the command, but
with another command, this space must be omitted as it would result in
a real space. Braces work in both cases.

Note though that forthcoming LyX 2.4 will be smarter and output, with
your example:

{\Large\textsl{Here is some long long long and even longer text that
spans multiple lines of a paragraph in large size and slanted
style.}}{\Large\par}

There is also a reason for size switches coming before font style
markup. I can't remember the details now but this is the only order
that works in all cases.

HTH,
Jürgen
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