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This article is from the Sri Lanka FAQ, by Prasad Dharmasena dharma@eng.umd.edu with numerous contributions by others.

33 Are there any Sinhala fonts?

Sunil Koswatta <skoswatt@mcs.kent.edu> has created a bitmapped Sinhala
font for the Macintosh computers.
http://nimitz.mcs.kent.edu/~skoswatt/sin.html

Vasantha Saparamadu <vasa@ee.uts.edu.au> has sucessfully converted the
above to a LaTex font.

No Sinhala Metafonts that I know of (yet). If you are interested in
developing a sinhala Metafont, you may want to contact Wijesuriya
Dayawansa <wpd@eng.umd.edu> at University of Maryland.

Ecological Linguistics
P.O Box 15156
Washington, DC 20003
(202)547-7678
Sinhala Font for Mac and PCs.
Price: US$80.00

Ethno Multimedia
2055 Dundas Street West
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M6R 1W8
(416)588-7193
(416)925-6319
They sell five Sinhala PostScript fonts for
PCs, Macs, Amiga and NeXT. Price US$300/font.

S.T. Nandasara
Institute of Comp Studies
University of Colombo
Tel: (1)581245
Fonts for Xerox Ventura (Rs. 30,000)
WadanTharuwa SP (Rs. 20,000)
E-mail: stn@ict.ac.lk

S.P. Mahanama
145/1 Gramasanwardena Rd
Polwatte, Pannipitiya
Sri Lanka
Tel: (72)46918
Fonts for Aldes Page Maker (PC)
Four styles (Rs. 50,000)

Gate Seven Computers Ltd
6A Gwendwr Road
London W14 9BG
Tel/Fax: +44(0)71-602-5186
Chitralekha, SHree Lipi
Word (windows) fonts

Lingua Language Services
63b Woodhead Road
Holmfirth Huddersfield
Yorkshire HD7 1PR, UK
Tel +44 (0)484 686396
Fax +44 (0)484 687320

Gamma Productions Inc
710 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 609
Santa Monica, CA 90401

(310)394-8622
(310)395-4214 Fax

OpenArc Systems Management (Pvt) Ltd.
57C S De S. Jayasinghe Mawatha
Kohuwala, Nugegoda
Sri Lanka
Tel: (94)(1)823551-2 or (94)(078)64707
Fax: (94)(1)823552

It is possible to make new Mac fonts with the package Fontographer
on the Mac. The package costs about $250.00 <hint><hint>

 

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