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Fonts, Text Editors and Sinhala transliteration

• Are there any Sinhala fonts (FAQs: Monthly posting to soc.culture.sri-lanka. An old document!)

• Sinhala Key Template for WordPerfect (For those who like to take the advantage of WordPerfect and its options with Sinhala True Type Fonts: Kandy, Kandy Supplement, LanKantha, LankaThilaka) 

• Introduction to Trilingual Sinhala/Tamil/English input/output System (Windows 3.x and Windows95)

Fonts and Software

• Proprietary:


LaserSinhalese(TrueType? and ATM-compatible type 1 font for Macintosh) 
• Shareware/Freeware:

Internet fonts: 
Thibus from LankaLink (font is free, Editor needs be purchased) 
MiDamindu from ccom.lk (font is free, Editor needs be purchased) 
Sinhala (& Tamil) Word Processor & Fonts for Windows 95/98 from ccom.lk

Tex/Latex

• Sinhala TeX system (fonts and a preprocessor suitable for writing Sinhala Script using Tex or LaTex) available by anonymous ftp at ftp.mq.edu.au in the folder /home/vsaparam/sinhala_tex/
• Package of Metafont fonts and a preprocessor suitable for writing Sinhala script using TeX or LaTeX 

For those interested in the development of transliteration schemes for Sinhala (and other Indic scripts). 

•  Sri Lanka Standard Sinhala Character Code for Information Interchange 
•  Proposal for encoding the Sinhala script in ISO/IEC 106