Clicking on an article in a newsletter scrolls the Table of Contents to the end

Bug #2099678 reported by Nick Wick
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Bug Description

Clicking on an article in a newsletter scrolls the Table of Contents to the end. This happens at least for the Financial Times, New York Times and Wall Street Journal. The same does not seem to happen when clicking on an item in the Table of Contents of a regular book. See attachment.

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Nick Wick (bugreporter41) wrote :
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Kovid Goyal (kovid) wrote :

Dont read your news in MOBI format in the calibre viewer (internally its
just one giant HTML file which will cause various issues). EPUB or AZW3
will work much better for this. The reason for the issue is that the
viewer is detecting the current article as the last one and so the toc
panel is scrolling to show the last article in bold. When all articles
are in a single file detection of article boundaries is much less
robust. As it has to work with rendered positions of HTML anchors. That
said this probably *could* be fixed, just not sure if it's worth the
effort.

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Kovid Goyal (kovid) wrote :

Fixed in branch master. The fix will be in the next release. calibre is usually released every alternate Friday.

Changed in calibre:
status: New → Fix Released
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Nick Wick (bugreporter41) wrote :

I wasn't aware that the format for news could be changed and wasn't it automatically set to MOBI? How do I change the format to a format that works better? I'm glad you were able to resolve the issue.

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Kovid Goyal (kovid) wrote :

It will be whatever format is set as your output format in
Preferences->Behavior, with the special case that if the output format
is azw3 news is downloaded in MOBI to work with the Kindle's special
periodical support.

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