Problem with smarten punctuation when using ebook-convert

[leastcommonancestor]

The command line tool ebook-convert with option --smarten-punctuation applies the transform to the value of href-attributes, i.e.

<p><a href="test....html">foobar</a></p>

gets changed to

<p class="calibre1"><a href="test….html">foobar</a></p>

The smarten punctuation is done in the ebook editor, the result is ok and the href value is not changed.

Command was: ebook-convert test0.html test0.epub --smarten-punctuation

Tested with Calibre 2.61 and Ubuntu 15.10.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

I canont replicate this -- I get the same results from both the command
line and the editor (in both places values of attributes are smartened).
Indeed, they use the exact same code so that is to be expected.

As for smartening inside attributes -- that is a smartypants (the
library calibre uses for this) behavior/bug. If I have some time, I will
look into it, but since that is not code I maintain...

 status invalid

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

On second thoughts, I will fix it, as the fix is easy.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

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

 status fixreleased