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From: torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson)
Subject: Re: Japanese popularity of orgmode
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 04:42:26 -0500
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That's amazing! As others here have mentioned, it would be interesting and instructive to see a sample of the configuration & org markup that made something like that possible. In any case, I guess it makes sense to see more about orgmode if it was replacing LaTeX and Word as front-ends in demanding, peer-reviewed situations.  

heroxbd@gentoo.org writes:

> Hey Tory,
>
> torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes:
>
>> There seems to be (and has been for a while) a growing Japanese
>> presence online with orgmode materials, documentation, addons,
>> etc. Most recenlty I found this blog:
>> http://paper.li/highfrontier/1300501273 . I had also noticed many of
>> the page titles on the orgmode website/wiki had Japanese content. This
>> has me curious. Does anyone know the story of what's causing it to
>> take off in Japan, or whether "taking off" is even the right word? Is
>> it just a few people or a department at a university that are using
>> it?
>
> Well, just my 2 cents.  I attended a Japanese university and wrote my
> PhD thesis in org-mode.
>
> Cheers,
> Benda