Footnotes in Github Flavored Markdown (tested also in http://atom.io)
Footnote in sup. 0
<sup>[0][roblabs]</sup>
Footnote in sup + brackets. [0]
<sup>[[0][roblabs]]</sup>
Footnote in sup + brackets + brackets in the anchor <a>. [0]
<sup>[\[0\]][roblabs]</sup>
- From this Stack Overflow answer 1, add a little ↩ at the end of your footnote's content, which takes your readers back to the line containing the footnote's link
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1 The answer on SO, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25579868/how-to-add-footnotes-to-github-flavoured-markdown/32119820#32119820, thanks to Matteo. The idea of returning the user to where they started is fantastic. ↩
2 Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. ↩