diff --git a/src/ui/DocumentationGenerator.java b/src/ui/DocumentationGenerator.java
index cbe22875c398f99c0c19f37cd361c94b06332011..56873984344ae7f3d2916d4c50504c4c6693d75a 100644
--- a/src/ui/DocumentationGenerator.java
+++ b/src/ui/DocumentationGenerator.java
@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ public class DocumentationGenerator implements SteppedAlgorithm, StoppableGUIEle
         tmpdoc += " generation date: " + formattedDate;
         tmpdoc += "----\n";
 	tmpdoc += "\\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}\n\n\\usepackage{graphicx}\n\n\\begin{document}\n";
-	tmpdoc += "\\title{" + projectName + "}\n";
+	tmpdoc += "\\title{" + Conversion.replaceAllString(projectName, "_", "\\_") + "}\n";
 	tmpdoc += "\\date{\\today}\n";
 	tmpdoc += "\\maketitle\n\n";
 	tmpdoc += "\\input{"+texIncludeFileName+"}\n";
@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ public class DocumentationGenerator implements SteppedAlgorithm, StoppableGUIEle
         tmpdoc += "----\n";
 	tmpdoc += "% To be compiled as follows: make all. Relies on https://github.com/pacalet/mli.git\n";
 	tmpdoc += "\\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}\n\n\\usepackage{graphicx}\n\n\\begin{document}\n";
-	tmpdoc += "\\title{" + projectName + "}\n";
+	tmpdoc += "\\title{" + Conversion.replaceAllString(projectName, "_", "\\_") + "}\n";
 	tmpdoc += "\\date{\\today}\n";
 	tmpdoc += "\\maketitle\n\n";
 	tmpdoc += "\\input{"+texIncludeFileNameSvg+"}\n";