title: Sphinx can't generate link text as literal
body: <p>With Markdown, I can simply:</p>
  <pre><code>[`a link with monospace font`](https://www.example.com)
  </code></pre>
  <p><a href="https://www.example.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>a link with monospace font</code></a></p>
  <p>Note how the above line is properly rendered by SO's MD renderer: the link text is in code (monospace) syntax.</p>
  <p>I'm trying to achieve the same with reST:</p>
  <p>I've tried to do this in reST with</p>
  <pre><code>```a link with monospace font`` &lt;https://www.example.com&gt;`_
  </code></pre>
  <p>But that breaks the linking, I get a monospaced text with <code>a link with monospace font</code> and then a link with <code>https://www.example.com</code> as the link text.</p>
  <p>The problem seems to be Docutil's lack of support for nested inline markup. Frankly, I don't understand how's that possible. Docutils <a href="https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/dev/rst/alternatives.html#to-do" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>ToDo</code></a> lists a discussion from 2001! We're in 2022! Not only this really basic feature is missing, but my impression is also that there's no real interest in ever implementing it.</p>
  <p>I don't think the <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4743845/format-text-in-a-link-in-restructuredtext/4836544#4836544">different</a> <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34516306/in-restructuredtext-how-to-put-an-inline-literal-inside-of-a-hyperlink">workarounds</a> are reasonable for such a simple feature.</p>
  <p>Pandoc has an <a href="https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/3973" rel="nofollow noreferrer">open bug for</a>  the exact same problem/</p>
  <p>How can I get an HTML link test rendered as a literal without any workaround when using reStructuredText?</p>