automating FLOSS software listings

Has anyone thought about auto-generating a list of the software that's
installed on their LFS system in a format that's friendly to end
users?

We've extracted the Schoolforge FLOSS software list from a database to
CSV format.  The Schoolforge project currently has over 300 programs
in the list.  The new site design won't include a database.  So, we've
been thinking of converting the information to another format like
PDF, wiki, GitHub list, etc.  We're trying to share information about
interesting and useful FLOSS software with people who may not be that
familiar with it or may not know what's available out there.  I've
also been experimenting with adding documentation utilities to the
build tools I use when doing BLFS builds.  Was thinking it would be
fun to share information and descriptions of the FLOSS I like to build
from scratch on my system.

At this point, I'm debating whether I should try to use the
documentation utilities from my build tools (still a work in progress)
or whether there's an easier and more effective route to share this
type of information with end users.  Assuming I convert the
Schoolforge software information to a format my build system can
handle, I can currently output to HTML (or other text format) using a
template based document creation system.  From HTML, I can use
wkhtmltopdf to convert to PDF.  wkhtmltopdf can auto-generate a table
of contents.  I still would like to work on an automated way to
generate an index based on keywords.

Has anyone attempted a project like this for their on LFS/BLFS system?
 Does anyone have recommendations of useful Linux/Unix style command
line tools/scripts for working with text files (especially creating
indexes) beyond the standard coreutils?  Are there more efficient ways
to get an easy to read FLOSS software list document generated from
CSV?  If you've worked on a similar software documentation project or
have ideas on a good way to accomplish something like this, would
appreciate hearing about it.  Thanks.
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