I am tired of searching erratically the perfect font by scrolling endlessly with Gimp all fonts so I thought: "Why not build a visual list of pangrams for each font".

I tried therefore building a php script which looked for .ttf and otf files in .fonts/ folder and which printed the css @font-face, however the result sucked because each font has its own quirks even under only firefox.

<?php
$path = "/home/cinthya/.fonts/";

//get all text files with a .txt extension.
$texts = glob($path . "*.ttf");
$i = 0;

//print each file name
foreach($texts as $text)
{
    echo "  @font-face {
    font-family: ".substr($text,22, (strlen($text)-26)).";<br>
    src: local('".substr($text,22, (strlen($text))-26)."'),  local('".substr($text,22, (strlen($text))-26)."'), url('".substr($text,22, (strlen($text)))."');<br>
    font-weight:normal;<br>
}<br>";
    echo "#div".$i." p {
    font-family: '".substr($text,22, (strlen($text)-26))."', Fallback, sans-serif;
    font-size: 2.5em;
  }<br>";
  $i++;
}

$texts = glob($path . "*.otf");
$j = 0;
foreach($texts as $text)
{
  echo "<div id=\"div".$j."\"><p>Zwölf Boxkämpfer jagen Eva quer über den großen Sylter Deich</p></div>\n";
  $j++;
}

Isn't there some stupid program which prints a nice vertical list of fonts examples by just only specifying a pangram and the folder containing the fonts? Or some way to do it?

I know I should not ask for software suggestion but this is a necessity for which any quick and dirty solution would be helpful.