diff --git a/doc/latex.rst b/doc/latex.rst
index 81706d00f..d6ae2fee6 100644
--- a/doc/latex.rst
+++ b/doc/latex.rst
@@ -1029,11 +1029,11 @@ Environments
 Miscellany
 ~~~~~~~~~~
 
-- Every text paragraph in document body starts with `\sphinxAtStartPar`.
+- Every text paragraph in document body starts with ``\sphinxAtStartPar``.
   Currently, this is used to insert a zero width horizontal skip which
   is a trick to allow TeX hyphenation of the first word of a paragraph
   in a narrow context (like a table cell). For ``'lualatex'`` which
-  does not need the trick, the `\sphinxAtStartPar` does nothing.
+  does not need the trick, the ``\sphinxAtStartPar`` does nothing.
 
   .. versionadded:: 3.5.0