Hi, as it seems, setuplayout fails with a predefined layout in both MkIV and MkII. The attached example produces the following error: ! Missing number, treated as zero. <to be read again> f \@@lyindexheight ->f it <argument> ...upheight \layoutparameter \c!height \relax \ifdim \bottomspace... \secondoftwoarguments #1#2->#2 \dorecalculatelayout ...pspace \relax \else \fi }} \else \global \makeupheigh... \dosetuplayout ...#1}}}\fi \fi \recalculatelayout \checkcurrentlayout \prese... ... l.9 \completecontent Best regards, Andreas.