Latex: stretchable curly braces outside math

Question

I am producing some latex beamer slides (but I think it is not a beamer specific question per se).

I have the following:

\\begin{itemize}
\\item Issue1
\         


        

Answer 1

Here is Geoffs code with some small adaptions (just for other beamer users)

\begin{frame}{Example}

\begin{itemize}
\item The long Issue 1
\tikz[remember picture] \node[coordinate,yshift=0.7em] (n1) {}; \\
spanning 2 lines


\item Issue 2
  \tikz[remember picture] \node[coordinate, xshift=1.597cm] (n2) {};
\item Issue 3

\end{itemize}

\visible<2->{
\begin{tikzpicture}[overlay,remember picture]
  \draw[thick,decorate,decoration={brace,amplitude=5pt}]
        (n1) -- (n2) node[midway, right=4pt] {One and two are cool};
\end{tikzpicture}
 } % end visible

\end{frame}

Ressult (2nd slide of that frame):

The adaptions are:

• added the visible command (because I think it is useful to blend in the brace later)
• made the items more complex so the use of xshift became necessary (I figured out the xshift value simply by try and error so thats a drop of bitterness) Edit 2018-12-23: manual try-and-error shifting can be overcome by using this method: (n1 -| n2) -- (n2) instead of (n1) -- (n2).