Superscript in markdown (Github flavored)?

Question

Following this lead, I tried this in a Github README.md:

<span style="vertical-align: baseline; position: relative;top: -0.5em;>text in superscript</span>

Does not work, the text appears as normal. Help?

Answer 1

Use the <sup></sup> tag (<sub></sub> is the equivalent for subscripts). See this gist for an example.