Inline markup enable words and phrases within text bodies to have different character styles (italics, bold, etc.) and functionality (hyperlinks, references, etc.).
italics results into italics and bold becomes bold.
To force fixed-space literals (i.e. monospace), use quotes "double back-quotes": double back-quotes
reST is smart and in most cases knows when a special character is not special like in calculations: 55=25. Special characters like asterisks can be marked to be ignored by preceding them with backslash "" or double back-quotes *.
Some demonstrations:
.. |substitution reference| image:: http://dgallery.s3.amazonaws.com/biohazard.png
emphasis -> emphasis
strong emphasis -> strong emphasis
interpreted text -> interpreted text
reference_ -> reference
phrase reference -> phrase reference
anonymous__ -> anonymous
|substitution reference| ->
footnote reference [1] -> footnote reference [1]
citation reference [HEVOK2013]_ -> [Hevok2013]
http://denigma.de -> http://denigma.de
__ http://www.denigma.de/lifespan/
.. _reference: http://www.denigma.de/datasets/references/
.. _phrase reference: http://www.denigma.de/datasets/references/
_inline internal target -> inline internal target
[1]Hevok, 2012
[Hevok2013]A citation (as used in journals)
