eudoxos, your replies are getting funkier and funkier...
sadly, it's a bit hard to reproduce what you are doing, since i can only manage to type "latin" languages.
but:
- using tabulators is very compatible with paragraph styles (and you cannot set tabulators in character styles)
- in this case, using tabulators is a solution, not a hack.
- in scribus, you can very well control the vertical offset of a character
upload a .sla with 4 lines, each line with four "words" in different scripts, separated by a tabulator.
and the links to the fonts one needs to install.
and i can try it out.
maybe it does indeed not work... but until proven of the contrary, this seems to be something trivial to solve with tabulators.