Conversion smartens punctuation even when disabled

Lukusaukko · Yesterday, 03:13 PM

Today I converted a few TXT files to EPUB and noticed that the conversion process smartens punctuation even when it's not enabled in Look & Feel. Might be true for other formats as well, but haven't tested it because I don't have any with plain ascii formatting. Using 9.14 - are there any other settings which might control this, or is this an actual bug?

theducks · Yesterday, 05:03 PM

You do know Calibre tends to store the settings that were used PER BOOK.

So, if you change Preferences:Conversion:common Options (that is the place to set the default to initially use) at a later time, it will still use those from the previous run on that book.
There is a reset default at the bottom of the conversion screen that appears at the beginning of a conversion. That (re)loads the current Preferences.
OR
You can adjust the individual books setting at the start of each run. That will be saved .

BetterRed · Yesterday, 06:01 PM

The per book saved settings can be removed from the library database via Bulk Metadata edit

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Added: Unless there's a good reason to keep them, I always remove them once I'm satisfied with the conversion.

BR

Lukusaukko · Today, 10:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by theducks

You do know Calibre tends to store the settings that were used PER BOOK.

These are TXT files that have been sitting in my library untouched to this date, so they haven't been converted before. Also, if I reset the conversion settings to defaults in the Conversion screen, the result is still the same: the file gets smartened regardless of settings.

Yesterday, 03:13 PM	#1
Lukusaukko Connoisseur Posts: 84 Karma: 392326 Join Date: Feb 2023 Device: Kobo Libra 2	Conversion smartens punctuation even when disabled Today I converted a few TXT files to EPUB and noticed that the conversion process smartens punctuation even when it's not enabled in Look & Feel. Might be true for other formats as well, but haven't tested it because I don't have any with plain ascii formatting. Using 9.14 - are there any other settings which might control this, or is this an actual bug?

Yesterday, 06:01 PM	#3
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 22,852 Karma: 34252730 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	The per book saved settings can be removed from the library database via Bulk Metadata edit Added: Unless there's a good reason to keep them, I always remove them once I'm satisfied with the conversion. BR Last edited by BetterRed; Yesterday at 06:05 PM.

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Yesterday, 05:03 PM	#2
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 31,981 Karma: 65700000 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	You do know Calibre tends to store the settings that were used PER BOOK. So, if you change Preferences:Conversion:common Options (that is the place to set the default to initially use) at a later time, it will still use those from the previous run on that book. There is a reset default at the bottom of the conversion screen that appears at the beginning of a conversion. That (re)loads the current Preferences. OR You can adjust the individual books setting at the start of each run. That will be saved .

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