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The solution is to go to 'Text styple' after right click on 'selected' text. Then go to 'customize'.

This is pretty obscure. To me style and size are not the same thing. At least size control is there. Choice of 'sizes' is relatively crude, but good enough ...

This would work for footnotes too ...

What happened do changing font and size by 'selecting' text in a word-like way? I pretty sure 'lyx' use to allow this ...

It' very hand, if, e.g., you want to insert a long quotation in bold or italics and a different size.

I'm pasting things in from a PDF document and they come out in too small a ...

In 'lyx' using 'ps2pdf' option evades the problem. The 'dvi' options also work. Problem appears to be related to 'pdLatex' ...

So in the context of 'lyx' I found a work around ... use one of the other viewing options on offer in 'Documents' menu. The two div options and 'ps2pdf' as will as plain 'postscript' work. 'ps2pdf' looks best.

The default 'pdLatex' invoked by the googly eyes option does not work, but fails as ...

I'm having this same problem with eps files.

I'm trying to move lyx document from Linux to eps. I get this error when I try to view a document containing an eps image. This image worked fine on Linux. I ran 'eps2eps' on it and it still doesn't work.

The error is coming from latex not lyx directly ...

The glitch I have is that when ever lyx runs latex, it gets "cannot determine graphic size error". I'm using eps files so size determination should be easy.

I even tried images that used to work on Linux (I'm trying to get going on windows 10).

I see old references to this kind of problem, but no ...