CTAN has a new package: pgf-soroban

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 ......................................................................... 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:

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Allows to create the Japanese soroban (abacus) using TikZ/PGF

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This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/latex/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pgf-soroban (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .