Using: Scribus 1.7.2 Flatpak, openSUSE Tumbleweed / Gnome 49
Scribus has a capability for turning a pair of numbers into a superscript/subscript formatted fraction. For example, you can type in a 1, then a 2, click in between, and then insert the "Solidus" character (a solidus is basically a specific type of slash also known as a fraction bar).
What should happen is that the first number (using the example above, the "1") should be superscripted, and the second number should be subscripted, and one should have a proper-looking fraction.
What actually does happen is that you have to change fonts to something else after doing it, and some fonts don't do anything at all.
For example, if I switch to Tekton Pro, it will automatically make it a fraction. If I switch to Helvetica LT, nothing happens.
I don't believe this is a font feature issue because it doesn't replace the 1, the solidus, and the 2 with a single fraction character, though maybe it is and I'm wrong.
The other issue is when you start moving Pallets around, they become unwieldy. They will shift around, or they will completely undock, and sometimes when they undock they lose their title bar so suddenly they cannot be moved at all.
EDIT: One other thing, related to fractions, and this is something I've experienced across multiple versions of Scribus (1.4, 1.5, 1.6, and 1.7) is that when you set all your superscript and subscript settings, if you manually make a fraction, the numerator will not appear at the correct height, but if you take the document and export it (as a PDF, for example) it shows correctly there.
- That type of fraction only works when the font does support it. You see it in the "Open Type Features" section of the content palette.
- Concerning the palettes: the current implementation will be replaced "soon" by a different implementation
https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=17432