It's possible to use the so-called "Suetterlin" (or deutsche Schreibschrift?) fonts in latex, see
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.german/15805
I find these fonts correspond more to what (some) people use to denote ideals (especially, the a g p and q). However these font do not come with math mode support, in particular when one use them as indices or exponents they are not automatically resized. Is there any way to make this resize automatic?
EDIT: Combining \DeclareSymbolFont
with \DeclareSymbolFontAlphabet
seems it would be the right way to go, but the font is then about 60% the size it should be. Thus my current (unsatisfactory) solution uses \mathchoice
, as it allows to scale the font as desired (well more or less). Here is a copy paste of a file to compile:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{suetterl}
\newcommand{\ds}[1]{%
\ifmmode
\mathchoice{\hbox{\upshape \Large\suetterlin #1}\,}{\hbox{\upshape\Large\suetterlin #1}\,}{\hbox{\upshape\large\suetterlin #1}\,}{\hbox{\upshape \small\suetterlin #1}\,}%
\else
{\suetterlin #1}
\fi
}
\DeclareSymbolFont{deusch}{T1}{suetterl}{m}{n}
\DeclareSymbolFontAlphabet{\mathds}{deusch}
\begin{document}
bla bla bla
$\ds{a}^2 + \ds{b}^2 = \ds{c}^2$
bla bla bla
$\mathds{a}^2 + \mathds{b}^2 = \mathds{c}^2$
bla bla bla.
bla bla bla
$\ds{a}^{\ds{a}^{\ds{a}}} + \ds{b}^{\ds{b}^{\ds{b}}} = \ds{c}^{\ds{c}^{\ds{c}}}$
bla bla bla
$\mathds{a}^{\mathds{a}^{\mathds{a}}} + \mathds{b}^{\mathds{b}^{\mathds{b}}} = \mathds{c}^{\mathds{c}^{\mathds{c}}}$
bla bla bla.
\end{document}
\DeclareSymbolFont{letters}{T1}{suetterl}{m}{n}
allows those fonts to be used in math with diminished subscripts. It would help to get a feel of how you are using it.