I figured out the problem: on the Mac LyX stores the UserDir under ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-<version>. I still had version 2.0 and was editing my layout file in that folder, rather than the one in the 2.1 folder. I now works as expected.
Thanks again. On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 3:46 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller <sp...@lyx.org> wrote: > Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > > > Is it possible that LyX caches layout files somewhere and it's not > picking > > > up a new version (I'm on OS X Mavericks with LyX 2.1.2.1 for what it's > > > worth). > > > > No. You are sure that you do not have a copy of the layout file which is > > used by LyX? > > Also assure that your document does not have a local layout that overwrites > the layout definition. > > Jürgen > -- Ernesto Posse Zeligsoft.com