Make math font variants of u, v and w available in italic text font

[firai]

Maybe I'm missed something in the docs, but it doesn't seem possible to get the rounded forms of u, v, and w, which are used in the math font, from the italic text font?

I'm writing engineering equations, which often uses descriptive subscripts. Since math kerning isn't designed for this purpose, particularly with f, j, t, x and y, I understand that the preferred practice is to use italic text subscripts instead. However, I would like to use the rounded forms of u, v and w for consistency with the other math symbols.

My current workarounds are:

• Use regular math subscripts and manually re-kern around particularly problematic letters. I'm doing this with the Lua code for LaTeX, but as you can imagine, this gets ugly quickly. This also doesn't work with Word.
• Use italic text subscripts, and use ssty02 to get the angled forms of u, v and w for math symbols. However, I actually like the rounded forms. This also has a side effect of getting the alternate form of g as well.