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Is there a package witch allow the printing of a “specimen”¹ of a given font?

I don’t search to print just a neutral table like what xfonttable{} do.
But something more human readable, witch will show list of character depending of the alphabet used (latin, cyrillic, greek) or the kind (currencies, various symbols, dingbats, etc).

It would be great if it exist a command like specimen{<font name>} witch print on a fool page the whole specimen.

¹ A specimen is a page witch display in a nice rendering the ability and the supported characters of a font. You can see the Anonymous Pro’s example.

Find the family name of the font and run pdflatex nfssfont from the command line.

Hit return at the first prompt, then the encoding you wish to test, the font family name and then the other font specs (just hit return if you want the proposed default). At the last * prompt type bigtestbye and return.

Here's the console output

> pdflatex nfssfont

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.19 (TeX Live 2018) (preloaded format=pdflatex)

 restricted write18 enabled.

entering extended mode

(/usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/nfssfont.tex

LaTeX2e <2018-12-01>

(/usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls

Document Class: article 2018/09/03 v1.4i Standard LaTeX document class

(/usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))

No auxiliary output files.



**********************************************

* NFSS font test program version <v2.2d>

*

* Follow the instructions

**********************************************



Input external font name, e.g., cmr10

(or <enter> for NFSS classification of font):



currfontname= 





*** NFSS classification ***



Font encoding [T1]:



encoding=T1

(/usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def)

Font family [cmr]:



family=EBGaramond-LF

Font series [m]:



series=

Font shape [n]:



shape=

Font size [10pt]:



size=

(/usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ebgaramond/T1EBGaramond-LF.fd)

Now type a test command (help for help):)

*bigtestbye  

[1{/usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}]

[2] [3] [4]{/usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/fonts/enc/dvips/ebgaramond/ebgm_

xxcxg5.enc}</usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/ebgaramond/EB

Garamond-Regular.pfb></usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/ams

fonts/cm/cmr10.pfb></usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfo

nts/cm/cmr7.pfb></usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts

/cm/cmti10.pfb></usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/

cm/cmtt10.pfb>

Output written on nfssfont.pdf (4 pages, 199258 bytes).

Transcript written on nfssfont.log.

and here's an excerpt from page 2:

Use the fonttable package. It has many options but you will have to read the documentation (> texdoc fonttable) to get the full glory of what it enables you to do.