The material below has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be in place at your local mirror.
Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: pgf-soroban Author's name: Alain Delmotte Location on CTAN: /graphics/pgf/latex/ Summary description: creates images of the Japanese abacus using TikZ/PGF License type: lppl
Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Allows to create the Japanese soroban (abacus) using TikZ/PGF ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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