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-A simple operational transform library that uses the GOTO control algorithm.
+A simple operational transform library that uses the domain-agnostic GOTO control algorithm.
 
 The implementation of the GOTO algorithm was written based on [this paper](https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=289469).
+
+This repository also contains an implementation of inclusion and exclusion transformation functions, for character-wise operations on plaintext documents, that can be used with the GOTO algorithm.
+
+## Install
+```bash
+yarn add simple-ot
+```
+or
+```bash
+npm install simple-ot --save
+```
+
+## Example
+```typescript
+import { charwise, OT } from './mod';
+const {
+  Delete,
+  Insert,
+  OperationType,
+  deserialize,
+  exclusionTransform,
+  inclusionTransform,
+  serialize,
+} = charwise;
+const id = /* some function that generates IDs that are unique across all sites (ex. uuid) */;
+
+const siteID = 1;
+// create the singleton OT object for this site
+const ot = new OT(inclusionTransform, exclusionTransform, siteID);
+
+const localInsert = new Insert('a', 0, id(), siteID, ot.history());
+
+// local operations can just be pushed to ot.historyBuffer
+ot.historyBuffer.push(localInsert);
+
+// ... and then sent to other sites
+const serializedLocal = serialize(localInsert);
+sendToOtherSites(serializedLocal);
+
+
+// ... some time later we receive an operation from another site
+
+const remoteSerialized = {
+  historyBuffer: [] as number[],
+  id: 1,
+  position: 1,
+  siteID: 0,
+  type: OperationType.DELETE,
+};
+const remoteDelete = deserialize(remoteSerialized);
+
+// operations received from other sites need to be transformed before they
+// can be applied at this site
+const transformed = ot.goto(remoteDelete);
+
+// now its safe to apply the operation and push it to ot.historyBuffer
+applyOperation(transformed);
+ot.historyBuffer.push(transformed);
+```
+
+## API
+For the high-level, domain-agnostic control alogrithm see [control.ts](/src/control.ts).
+
+For the implementation of character-wise inclusion and exclusion transformation functions see [charwise.ts](/src/charwise.ts).