Improve literals with inline code are handled

This avoids making the text smaller twice.

docs/kitchen-sink/blocks.rst

@@ -172,6 +172,21 @@ https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/directives.html#parsed-literal-bloc
     curl -O http://someurl/release-0.1.0.tar-gz
     echo "This is an intentionally very long line because I want to make sure that we are handling scrollable code blocks correctly."
 
+    asyncio.set_event_loop_policy(
+        asyncio.WindowsSelectorEventLoopPolicy()
+    )
+
+With inline code
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Here's a parsed literal containing nested inline code:
+
+.. parsed-literal::
+
+    :obj:`asyncio.set_event_loop_policy`\ (
+        :obj:`asyncio.WindowsSelectorEventLoopPolicy`\ ()
+    )
+
 Code Block
 ----------
 

src/furo/assets/styles/content/_code.sass

@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ code.literal, .sig-inline
   font-size: var(--font-size--small--2)
   padding: 0.1em 0.2em
 
+  pre.literal-block &
+    font-size: inherit
+    padding: 0
+
   p &
     border: 1px solid var(--color-background-border)