Underscores in words (text)
You may prefer the character from the tt font:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\texttt{Samp\_Dist\_Corr}
\verb|Samp_Dist_Corr|
\texttt{Samp\char`_Dist\char`_Corr}
\end{document}
Or probably better add \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
then all the above forms will use the character from the font.
You can use \textunderscore
also.
\documentclass{article}
%
\begin{document}
Samp\textunderscore Distt\textunderscore Corr
\texttt{Samp\textunderscore Distt\textunderscore Corr}
\end{document}
Underscore is not merging at the bottom of D actually. It is very close to it.
A fairly elementary way of stripping special meaning from things is to \detokenize
them:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\texttt{\detokenize{Samp_Dist_Corr}}
\texttt{\detokenize{a@b\c_d&e~f g}}
\end{document}
Note how a space is inserted after a "control sequence". See What are the exact semantics of \detokenize
?