[Scribus] Applying Styles

[m8130 at abc.se]

>    Not to mention, there are a lot of "one-off" styles in some
> documents.  I just made a cover to a magazine that had 7 different
> styles on the page, each used exactly once.  That would have been a
> mess.

A text frame could have a "default" text format, but changing the default
for a text frame shouldn't change the formatting for text that has had
styles or explicit direct formatting set.