[scribus] Changing font in story editor

[Michael Eager]

When I import an ODT file created by LibreOffice into a text frame, any 
markup in the original document, such as bold or italic, is retained. 
If I open the article in the story editor and change the font size, bold 
and italic are preserved.  But if I change the font, say from Liberation 
Sans to Ariel, all of the markup is lost.

Is there a way to change the font without losing the original markup? 
Is this a bug in the story editor?

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Michael Eager