This 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
<Yannis.Haralambous@univ-lille1.fr>, with funding from the
Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 183 Euston Road,
London NW1 2BE, England (Contact person: Dominik Wujastyk
<D.Wujastyk@ucl.ac.uk>), 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 <vsaparam@ocs.mq.edu.au>
to add support for 'samanala' transliteration scheme developed by
Prasad Dharmasena <pkd@isr.umd.edu>.

See the file 'CHANGES' for all changes made to the original package.

FILES
-----
indica.lex		Source code of the 'indica' preprocessor
lreport.ps		Postscript document describing the original indica
			program
lreport.sin		Input file of the above
Makefile		Makefile for indica
LICENSE			GNU General Public License which covers this software
CHANGES			Changes made to the original package
diff_from_orig		File diffs between original package and version 1.0
INSTALL			Installation instructions
samanala.ps		Postscript document showing the rules of 'samanala'
			transliteration scheme developed by Prasad Dharmasena
samanala.sin		Input file of the above
sample.sin		Sample input file in 'samanala' encoding
sample.ps		Postscript output of the above

CHANGE TO SAMANALA
------------------
The following changes have been made to the original 'samanala'
transliteration scheme. A program 'smnl12' which converts documents
written in the original 'samanala' coding to the new 'samanala' (Ver. 2)
coding is included with this distribution.

samanala Ver.1              samanala Ver.2
(up to sinhala_tex.2.0)     (sinhala_tex.2.1 and later)
=======================     ==========================
ng                          "ng
nd                          "nd
ndh                         "ndh
mb                          "mb

LICENSE
-------
Original package: Copyright (C) 1994, The Wellcome Trust, London.
'samanala' scheme: Copyright (C) 1996, Prasad Dharmasena

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

AVAILABILITY
------------
The latest version of sinhala_tex is always available via anonymous FTP 
from the host ftp.mq.edu.au in the directory /home/vsaparam/sinhala_tex

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
----------------
Michael Inman <minman@csli.stanford.edu> helped to create the DOS version
of this package.

COMMENTS
--------
Please send any comments, suggestions for improvements and bug reports to
Vasantha Saparamadu <vsaparam@ocs.mq.edu.au>
