[JFWooten4]

Summary

Give backtick-delimited inline code real formatting and literal parsing in PDFs, especially when referring to filenames, paths, and commands inside footnotes.

Changes

• Parse exact-length backtick runs, including double-backtick spans for content that contains backticks; retain unmatched delimiters and support backslash-escaped backticks.
• Render spans in the built-in Courier monospace face at the surrounding paragraph size, preserving filename punctuation such as underscores, brackets, asterisks, HTML-sensitive characters, and URLs.
• Protect code contents before footnote citation detection, note-number interpolation, Markdown emphasis, smart-quote substitution, and URL auto-linking.
• Apply the same protection during initial document footnote numbering and quotation-local citation substitution. This prevents literal [^filename] or {{note-key}} inside a code span from turning into actual citations or links.
• Document usage in the README and add regression tests covering inline formatting, escaped and doubled delimiters, code within footnotes and quotation-local notes, and extracted PDF text/font selection.

Example

The attachment is `records_2026_[final].csv`.[^file]

[^file]: Use `reports/2026/records_2026_[final].csv` to identify the file.

The filenames should remain literal and monospaced; their square brackets and underscores are not citation or emphasis syntax.

Validation

• Verified the committed tree differs from main and contains the renderer, README, and new test file changes.
• Ran a standalone local parser/ReportLab smoke test covering filenames, HTML escaping, delimiter runs, escaped backticks, whitespace, and Courier fragments.
• Added six repository-level regression tests, including an integration test for the font of a footnote filename in the generated PDF. The full repository test suite has not been executed in this environment.

This PR targets inline code spans; changing the existing fenced-code-block renderer is out of scope.

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