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 From this directory, the code is run with `python3 ${PATH_TO_CODE}/main.py`. 
 
 ## input_parameters.txt
-The keyword and the value must be separated by tab. 
+The keyword and the value must be separated by one tab. 
 * `tau_window` (int): the length of the time window (in number of frames). 
 * `t_smooth` (int, optional): the length of the smoothing window (in number of frames) for the moving average. A value of `t_smooth = 1` correspond to no smoothing. Default is 1. 
 * `tau_delay` (int, optional): is for ignoring the first tau_delay frames of the trajectory. Default is 0.