Bold code in rst

Question

How can I get code (monospace) text that is bold in rst (I'm using Sphinx)? Anything in :: seems to be rendered literally, as with ``, so ``**bold**`` doesn't work.

Answer 1

In general, nested inline markup is not possible in reStructuredText. There are more or less ugly workarounds, such as using raw HTML. Like this:

.. raw:: html

   <div>Some stuff <pre>some <b>bold</b> text</pre>...</div>