Possible superior letter name inconstancy?

[mathieureguer]

Most superior letters are named with the mod suffix (amod, bmod, cmod, dmod, emod, fmod, gmod, kmod, mmod, omod, pmod, tmod, umod, vmod, zmod) while some are named with the supmod suffix (hsupmod, jsupmod, lsupmod, rsupmod, ssupmod, wsupmod, xsupmod, ysupmod).

I guess this is because the set is split across multiple code pages.
Maybe they should all use the same suffix? Something supmod to avoid ambiguity with other potential modifiers?
Maybe they should even use a dot syntax (a.supmod)?

I am happy to make a PR for this (or at least try to 😅) if you think it makes sense.

[LettError]

Let's see. It looks like these mod names have been like this from the beginning. This line is the conversion of SMALL to sup which may not always be correct? Does "small" have to mean "superior".

glyphNameFormatter/Lib/glyphNameFormatter/rangeProcessors/spacing_modifier_letters.py

Line 23 in abb3cdb

self.edit("SMALL", "sup")

I don't remember what the motivation was to use sup for small. Maybe small would be better?

[LettError]

Suppose we want to make .mod suffixes, we would need a bunch.

• .supmod or .smallmod
• .hooksupmod
• .hookturnedsupmod
• .turnedsupmod
• .supinvertedmod
  etc
  I find that a bit discouraging.

[mathieureguer]

Thanks for looking into this. It is indeed a bit discouraging :)
On top of the amount of potential mod related suffixes, they seem have very different semantic values: a.supmod could maybe be an alternate from of a triggered by an OT feature but a.hooksupmod is likely not to be an alternate, I suppose. Like we have A.smcp but no A.acute.

You are right, it is probably better to leave this as it is. Thanks for the input!

[LettError]

Might still change sup to small which seems closer to the unicode. Any thoughts about that?

[mathieureguer]

Maybe smallmod is better? (I have no qualification to answer this though 😁)
It's the sup keyword that lead me to use these unicode values for a.sups b.sups etc. But maybe that was a mistake and these unicode values should remain for phonetic related glyphs only and superiors should remain unicodeless? 🤷‍♂️