Prevent linebreak between inline code and punctuation

[abergerSRS]

I am using pandoc to convert from Markdown to PDF. I often use the inline code environment with single back-ticks, like this. In the PDF output, it's possible that the period following this ends up on a newline (with similar behavior for commas, parentheses, or other punctuation occurring immediately after the inline text). Is there a way to prevent this?

[jgm]

Can you give an example allowing this to be reproduced?

[abergerSRS]

Ah, I seem to have found the problem (though not yet the solution). You can reproduce the issue by running
pandoc pandoc_issue.md --filter pandoc-crossref --citeproc --from=markdown+tex_math_single_backslash+tex_math_dollars+raw_tex --to=latex --output=pandoc_issue.pdf --pdf-engine=xelatex on the included pandoc_issue.md

pandoc_issue.zip

I was using a custom latex simple.sty file. Generally, Markdown inline text gets translated to \texttt{inline} in TeX. My style file includes the following:

\let\inlinecode\texttt
\renewcommand{\texttt}[1]{
    \colorbox{gray!10}{\color{inline_color}\inlinecode{#1}}
}

This effectively replaces \texttt{inline} with \colorbox{gray!10}{\color{inline_color}\texttt{inline}}, which for some reason performs worse with TeX's sense of good line break locations.

If you instead run pandoc_no_issue.md (which doesn't use the simple.sty file), there is in fact no issue.