diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/pml/pmlml.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/pml/pmlml.py
index 3df24fcc86..e076148360 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/pml/pmlml.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/pml/pmlml.py
@@ -260,8 +260,8 @@ class PMLMLizer(object):
                         href += '#'
                     if href not in self.link_hrefs.keys():
                         self.link_hrefs[href] = 'calibre_link-%s' % len(self.link_hrefs.keys())
-                    href = self.link_hrefs[href]
-                    text.append('\\q="#%s"' % href)
+                    href = '#%s' % self.link_hrefs[href]
+                text.append('\\q="%s"' % href)
                 tags.append('q')
 
         # Anchor ids