write "Mi_dark energy" in a text paragraph

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I would like to write "Mi_dark energy" in a text paragraph.

How should I do?

I thought maybe but $Mi_\text{dark energy}$ but it doesn't work. What did I miss out? Thanks.

Welcome to TeX.SE. _ is reserved for coding subscripts in math mode, for example $x_a$ . If you want to escape from it, you might code like: \_, so your coding should be: Mi\_dark energy. — Sunilkumar KS, Dec 08 '15 at 10:12
@MattAllegro: Totally unclear what the O.P. requests. It could be verbatim \verb+Mi_dark energy+ as well — , Dec 08 '15 at 11:02
@ChristianHupfer Hi! true... I only wrote because I couldn't imagine Mi "in italic" ;) — MattAllegro, Dec 08 '15 at 11:04
@MattAllegro: Of course -- I just commented because the O.P. let's guessing wildly around about the case/sense of the request ;-) — , Dec 08 '15 at 11:07
What's not working? $... $ changes to math mode. Do you have amsmath loaded? Another question remains: is Mi one entity? Or a product of two? Is it a variable? An operator? — cgnieder, Dec 08 '15 at 11:21
@marczellm I don't think so: according to the comments the OP wants a subscript. — cgnieder, Dec 08 '15 at 11:26

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:34

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Math Mode works like MWijnand already told you, but it is not an aesthetic solution.

For the underscores, there is already an answered question here Underscores in words (text).

These Solutions are way better (even if they do nearly the same), because it is no math you are doing there, it is text, so you can use a textual solution like these.

To summarize it here are the Solutions:

\texttt{Mi\_dark energy}

\verb|Mi_dark energy|

\texttt{Mi\char`_dark energy}

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:34

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answered Dec 08 '15 at 11:14

Pascal Schneider

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Did it work like you wanted to? – Pascal Schneider Dec 10 '15 at 07:36

write "Mi_dark energy" in a text paragraph

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