Hello,
As the title says, I am new to Scribus.

As in I downloaded it today. So whatever it may seem to be lacking, I could simply not see. Or perhaps I do not understand the software yet.
Now before I continue, I also want to say that I have version 1.5.3. Even though it is not the stable version, I do not know if it would make a difference in my case.
One of the first things that seems lacking to me is an easy way to change the font color to a custom color. And I mean without the rigamarole of custom color palettes and character and paragraph styles. I know that that may be the easier way to go in some cases, but for now, I just want to change the font color to a custom color. Is there an easy way to do that?
The other thing is that when I pasted my short text (which lost its formatting, but I understand that that is how it is with Scribus and I am fine reformatting), the empty lines (and yes, I could use paragraph spacing—I do so in other programs,—but for the moment it is not important to me) remain Arial. And the end of each line is in Arial too, and not in EB Garamond. So every single time I need to make a new line, I have to fix the font. And just to say it again, for the moment, I do not want to mess with styles. If styles are the only way to go, please let me know, because I will have to use them. Since I am learning to use the program, I wanted to play with them later. It is not that I do not ever want to use them. Just not right now.
Also, the text editor seems to have no undo feature.
Now for OpenType. Scribus does not seem to support character variations (for example, in LibreOffice, if I have a lowercase italicized
v, with EB Garamond, I can change the font to EB Garamond:cv05=2 to get a different version of the character. I know that Scribus uses check boxes (which is easier than LibreOffice), but there does not seem to be a way to handle this. IS there?
Also, how can TeX files be used in Scribus? I have not begun using TeX, but it could be useful (though I want to have more control over formatting too—despite what people seem to think, the default for LaTex, for example, does not look that great. Well maybe for academic papers, but not for creative typography, or historical typography, etc, etc).
If you have read this far,
thank you for putting up with my
grumpiness. As I said, I am new to the program. I know there is a learning curve. I would just not like what is supposed to be a professional program (which is not a word processor) to miss out on basic features, even if they are not the most logical to use.