On 02/28/2017 04:36 AM, Ulrich Thomas Gabor wrote:
> Hi
>
> Since nobody replied on the normal users lists, maybe someone here can tell 
> me if it is possible to reference an include from a layout file relatively? 

Probably not. These "local layout" files were always a hack, and really
a bad idea. If you file a bug report, we can perhaps make import work.

Richard


> See the mail I sent to the users list:
>
>> Am 26.02.2017 um 15:59 schrieb Ulrich Thomas Gabor 
>> <ulrich.ga...@tu-dortmund.de>:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I have a local layout file, which I reference as "Local Layout" with a 
>> relative path (../templates/my.layout). Now I want to clean up the layout 
>> and move some parts into a separate include file for reuse. My wish is to 
>> create an include file next to the layout file (../templates/my.inc) and 
>> reference it from the layout-file, but this does not work, i.e. the include 
>> file is not found. Neither "input my.inc" nor "input ../templates/my.inc" 
>> works, presumably because LyX copies the layout file to a temp directory and 
>> the inc file is ignored.
>>
>> How can I get this constellation to work?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for hints into the right direction!
>>
>> Best
>> Ulrich
> I do not want to drop the includes in the system directories, because the lyx 
> files and the layout/include files are versioned and should stay closely 
> together.
>
> Can someone give me a hint, if this is possible at all?
>
> Best
> Ulrich
>

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