I'm brand new here, and just starting to learn Scribus, so please be gentle. I may have made an obvious rookie mistake.
My problem looks like this: When I enter certain glyphs, they are displayed as superscripts, smaller and higher than expected: October 3, 2020, is today's date. Testing (parentheses) and [brackets] I get something like this: October 3, 2020, is today's date. Testing (parentheses) and [brackets].
This happens when I copy/paste or write directly into both Story Editor and a text frame in the main display (called—?).
Superscripting happens to numerals and most punctuation, e.g. period and comma, but not colon nor semicolon. Parentheses and square brackets become superscripted, but not curly braces.
Is this a bug? An obscure setting I missed (or messed with, inadvertently)?
I spent a lot of time searching the forum and what other documentation I could find, not to mention delving into various menus, all to no avail. I considered either updating my bleeding edge version to 1.5.5 or switching to the stable version 1.4.8.* So I am asking for help, and I hope this is the right place to do so. Thanks.
Oh ... is this the best forum for this issue?
I am using Windows 10, and this info comes from the About box:
Scribus Version 1.5.3
23 May 2017
Build ID: C--T-*-C1.14.6-Windows-64bit
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* I installed this version a while back but never really used it. It Scribus seems perfect for my current (book-length) project, but only if I can get it to work. ;-)
Using Ghostscript version 9.50