From b1e4fb6ee6125ed5365b6d3b3204953907cbb51c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephen Caraher <moskvax@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 01:43:03 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] use <code> not <tt> for rst inline literals

---
 lib/github/commands/rest2html | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/github/commands/rest2html b/lib/github/commands/rest2html
index c8c8b521..ca9f26ff 100755
--- a/lib/github/commands/rest2html
+++ b/lib/github/commands/rest2html
@@ -86,6 +86,14 @@ class GitHubHTMLTranslator(HTMLTranslator):
         else:
             self.body.append(self.starttag(node, 'pre'))
 
+    # always wrap two-backtick rst inline literals in <code>, not <tt>
+    # this also avoids the generation of superfluous <span> tags
+    def visit_literal(self, node):
+        self.body.append(self.starttag(node, 'code', suffix=''))
+
+    def depart_literal(self, node):
+        self.body.append('</code>')
+
     def visit_table(self, node):
         classes = ' '.join(['docutils', self.settings.table_style]).strip()
         self.body.append(