Some time I asked here about kerning combining diacriticals. It now occurs to me that there is something wrong with the way Scribus 1.3.5 Rc3 on Jaunty x86_64 does manual kerning.
Try this experiment: Open a new document and create a text frame. Open the Story Editor and type a word of half a dozen characters or more. Select two of the characters in the middle of the word. Apply kerning, say -10%. When I do this the two selected letters are kerned closer together, but the leftmost letter is also kerned leftward into the preceding non-selected character. Is this by design? I ask because I can't think of any other program which kerns non-selected text. Moreover, if this is by design, then Scribus has no way to kern just two characters; you have to kern at least three.
