Generate font collection book

Question

This question led to a new package:
fontbook

Is there a package to generate a font collection book/catalogue from all fonts in the system (fc-list) or by selecting a list of fonts?

Ideally, it would print a small example, and list the features of the font (specially, the OTF features such as ligatures, small caps, etc.)

Answer 1

Since I haven't found anything, I've begun making one myself. The layout is quite simple. It is based on XeTeX/fontspec and uses only two macros:

\newcommand{\sampletext}[2][]{%
 {\par\csname#2\endcsname \csname#1\endcsname
 #2 #1\\
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 }
}


\newcommand{\printfont}[3][\empty]{%
   \fontspec[#1]{#2}
   \section*{#2 #1 --- Licence: #3}
   \ifx#1\empty
     \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{#2}
   \else
     \addcontentsline{toc}{subsection}{#1}
   \fi

   \sampletext{huge}
   \sampletext{LARGE}
   \sampletext{Large}
   \sampletext{large}
   \sampletext{normalsize}
   \sampletext{small}
   \sampletext{footnotesize}
   \sampletext{scriptsize}
   \sampletext{tiny}
   \sampletext[scshape]{large}
   \sampletext[itshape]{large}
   \sampletext[bfseries]{large}
   \pagebreak
}

The full project can be found on github. A new fontbook package is on its way to the CTAN.

Contributions are most welcome.