I\'ve recently switched over to using Jekyll on Github Pages for my various blogs, and love that I can just push Markdown to Github and they handle the processing. I\'d like to
When you want to use redcarpet
there seems to be no convenient solution right now.
Although Redcarpet 3 supports footnotes with the syntax you've used, it is not included into Jekyll, because Redcarpet 3 removes Ruby 1.8 compatibility (source).
See this solution by Jerod Santo:
Add a file called Gemfile
to the root of your Jekyll folder with this content:
source "https://rubygems.org"
gem "jekyll"
gem "redcarpet", github: "triplecanopy/redcarpet"
or alternatively djui/redcarpet
Theny adjust your _config.yml
to
markdown: redcarpet
redcarpet:
extensions: [footnotes]
I don't know what's the easiest way to do this. Comments are welcome.
Seems to support footnotes (source, source).