Terminology Glossary

Ocean

A collection of tides to form sentences.

Raft

A character (=) used to prefix a special character (not a-Z or 0-9).

Ripple

A character that would be a part of a wave.

Splash

A character (*) used to capitalize the following wave.

Tide

A collection of waves to form a word, where the word is the tide.

Wave

A single character encoded into oceanscript.

Identifier Table

Identifier	Description
,	Represents a space.
\n	Represents a space.
%	Represents a line break.
=	Creates a raft for a single character (proceeding character will be ignored by encoder).
*	Creates a splash for a wave (proceeding wave will be capitalized).
^	Denotes the top row of a box for a single wave.
~	Denotes the middle row of a box for a single wave.
_	Denotes the bottom row of a box for a single wave.
<	Denotes the left-hand column of a box for a single wave.
-	Denotes the central column of a box for a single wave.
>	Denotes the right-hand column of a box for a single wave.
.	Denotes the box number based on the count of this character. Must be 1-3.
o	Denotes the 4th box.