Scrolling through actual Font designs

Dear Experts,
One small detail I particularly liked about AppleWorks, was that when scrolling through the Fonts in any document, the Font names were displayed in their actual design.
Is it possible to have this practical, time saving feature in iWorks.
JP

The Font Window in Pages.
What I do like about this feature, is that having regular use fonts marked as favourites in a small window, is good ... But wouldn’t it be better if it met the old AppleWorks 6 method sort of half-way ... Such as having those favourites appear (in their actual style/form) in a scrollable list with say, a right-click or two key sequence right in the document ... Or wherever the cursor happens to be in the document ... Or am I just being too picky.
One of the main selling points of iWorks is surely how it looks, that interaction between user and beautiful graphics. So why have the Fonts listed in a rather dull way. I imagine even ‘The Steve’, who I guess is also a bit of a Font fan, would agree.
JP

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