I figured it out myself: The DependsOn property apparently doesn't actually
work for insets (only for styles).
2018-01-23 18:27 GMT+01:00 Klaus-Dieter Bauer <bauer.klaus.die...@gmail.com>
:
> Hello!
>
> Is there some way to specify layouts, that depend on the preamble of
> another?
>
> Consider e.g. the following LyX file:
>
> #LyX 2.3 created this file.
> \lyxformat 544
> \begin_document
> \begin_header
> \begin_local_layout
> InsetLayout Flex:AAA
> LyxType custom
> LabelString AAA
> LatexName AAA
> LatexType command
> Preamble
> \newcommand\AAA[1]{hello #1 world}
> EndPreamble
> End
>
> InsetLayout Flex:BBB
> LyxType custom
> LabelString BBB
> LatexName BBB
> LatexType command
> DependsOn Flex:AAA
> Preamble
> \newcommand\BBB[1]{bye(\AAA{#1})}
> EndPreamble
> End
>
> \end_local_layout
> \end_header
> \begin_body
> \begin_layout Standard
> \begin_inset Flex BBB
> status open
> \begin_layout Plain Layout
> Hello.
> \end_layout
> \end_inset
> \end_layout
> \end_body
> \end_document
>
>
> The dependency of BBB on AAA is explicitly declared, but using \BBB in the
> body adds only the preamble of \BBB, but not the preamble of \AAA, causing
> an "undefined control sequence" error on compilation.
>
> As I understand, DependsOn merely declares that the preamble of AAA should
> be added *before* the preamble of BBB, but only _if_ AAA is used itself.
>
> I couldn't find any feature that allows to declare an actual dependency,
> rather than just the ordering. Am I missing something?
>
> - Klaus
>
