Swift-scheduling: Consider using markdown footnotes

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The swift-scheduling instructions have a couple of footnotes:
problem-specifications/exercises/swift-scheduling
/instructions.md

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¹ A workday is a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday.
² A year has four quarters, each with three months: January/February/March, April/May/June, July/August/September, and October/November/December.

But since markdown needs two newlines to render a newline, it currently looks like this:

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I did some investigating on the Exercism website, and it seems like the footnotes extension on the commonmarker gem is enabled. I only see the gem being used app/commands/markdown/render_html.rb and app/commands/markdown/parse_doc.rb. In both cases it seems like footnotes are enabled.

I think markdown footnotes would be easier to read, plus they support navigation (as unnecessary as it is in this case).

P. S.: If any forum mods are reading this, there isn’t a forum tag for swift-scheduling yet.

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It should look better with an abdomination.

You can help with a PR (pull request) following the same steps they explain me in this post. Linking your Exercism account with Github, they will reward you with reputation.

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