sinhala_tex is a package of Metafont fonts and a preprocessor suitable for writing Sinhala script using TeX or LaTeX. This package was originally developed by Yannis Haralambous , with funding from the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, England (Contact person: Dominik Wujastyk ), which is using the font in its Catalogue of Sinhala Manuscript. The original package was available by ftp at ftp.bcc.ac.uk in /pub/users/ucgadkw/indology/software/sinhala1-TeX.zip It was later modified by Vasantha Saparamadu to add support for 'samanala' transliteration scheme developed by Prasad Dharmasena .