It does work, but you need to fiddle around a little while.
The reason some don't show up is that your looking down on the wrong angle, and when your view as moved, it selects whats past the letter and not the letter iteself. ( I think )
Took three trys to make it write my complete name.

Works exactly like that. Best if you look in direction of arrow, straight down, and then just "very little" forward.
If you have thin letters that would be hard to select, just fill empty space with valpha 0.001 0.001
cubes so its easy to select from above.

If you use it like this it works very reliable and without errors. I suspect big lag in multiplayer and multiple players trying to write could cause problems.

If anyone knows how to move your view in certain direction; than you would just type the command and nothing else would be needed.

Thx, a lot shorter. was wondering if there is case function in cubescript.
Couldnt find one in documentation. How low can i get with sleep values until i get problems ? Now write cycle is 100ms.

is this complexity really needed again?
here is the complete set, tested and working. Ac, you just need to add the new stuff in your alphabet

Typewritter Pastebin File

Nicely done Ac!

Chasester:
Please learn the language before giving help.
'$number[i]' is not valid, cubescript does NOT have arrays.

Razgriz:
omg, at least use looplist. <- nix that lol
Also, try more testing. It doesn't work with spaces & 'E' is missing. :)

Ac:
About the "view direction condition," I don't know of any.
Lowest will probably be 50 without any conflicts. (personally, I'd keep it at 100)
Sauer does have a case command: (case <number> [<value> <action>]* [<default action>])
- casef & cases for floats & strings respectively.
- also: (cond [<condition> <action>]* [<default action>])

Why must EVERYONE use lists!!
-> Sauer has string tools for a reason, such as this.
I can explain the reasons for not using lists in this case, but it would make this post too long.

strstr searches a string for another string: (strstr <orig str> <search str>)

My version with fixes from Razgriz's

Feel free to ask anything,
srbs

Nice elegant solution with string position, thanks.

I ran into that a few times, it's just the how script works. It goes to the base, deletes it, copies the block below it, then re-adds the base. (same idea with pasting)
Sometimes when it re-adds the base, it doesn't add it in the right spot. You can try out different 'look down and a little up' positions or just reload the map.

srbs

Never mind, somehow it works fine now :S. Seems like a pretty sensitive script tough...

Nice update! :)

So... I just went through a few different ideas, and refined it. Basically, I have a way that you can look straight down. I basically put a grid size 3 block on top of every character (I actually put a block in the entire room lol) Then, I added 'editmat air; ' before the cancelsel inside printletter. (You also have to delete the invisible stuff around the letters.) The only problem is the space doesn't work, but if you keep that as it is currently it should work. I'm too lazy to test it. :)

srbs

EDIT: Come to think of it, the space issue can be fixed in the script. :)