diff --git a/doc/usage/configuration.rst b/doc/usage/configuration.rst
index 2ed2c3269..ba377e1f6 100644
--- a/doc/usage/configuration.rst
+++ b/doc/usage/configuration.rst
@@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ documentation on :ref:`intl` for details.
    substitute individual paragraphs from your documents with the translation
    sets obtained from :confval:`locale_dirs`.  Sphinx will search
    language-specific figures named by `figure.language.filename` 
-   (e.g. the German version of `myfigure.png` will be `myfigure.de.png`) 
+   (e.g. the German version of ``myfigure.png`` will be ``myfigure.de.png``) 
    and substitute them for original figures.  In the LaTeX builder, a suitable 
    language will be selected as an option for the *Babel* package.  Default is 
    ``None``, which means that no translation will be done.