3. Silly Things

Inability to natively produce combined boldface and italic. This capability is mentioned early in documentation for other markup translators. I am guessing that the docutils parser does not know how to nest — perhaps not a recursive-descent parser, or the lexer is not well-enough defined to do this. This can be worked around by doing some hoop-jumping with custom roles like this:
```
.. role:: bi
    :class: bi
```
And then define that class in _static/custom.css like this:
```
span.bi {
    font-weight: bold;
    font-style: italic;
}
```
Then in conf.py:
```
html_css_files = [
    'css/custom.css'
]
```
or
```
# Introduce custom.css.
def setup(app):
    app.add_css_file('custom.css')
    print("Adding custom.css to output....")
```
See Comparison with Markdown for full CSS and custom-role file content for a workaround.
This same inability to nest also causes it to miss LINK references inside a boldface or italic block.
This MIGHT also be true for LINK targets, and possibly other markup.