8.49.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

8.49.2.1 How to typeset the symbol '^' (caret/circumflex/hat)
8.49.2.2 Real number symbol (UTF-8: a^\204\235) in XeTeX
8.49.2.3 Why do the less than symbol (<) and the greater than symbol (>) appear wrong as upside down exclamation (A^\[DownExclamation]) or question mark (A^\[DownQuestion])?
8.49.2.4 How to prevent LaTeX from hyphenating the entire document?
8.49.2.5 What does the phrase "Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph" actually mean?
8.49.2.6 How to include SVG diagrams in LaTeX?
8.49.2.7 What point (pt) font size are \Large etc.?
8.49.2.1 How to typeset the symbol '^' (caret/circumflex/hat)

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I need to display the symbol '^' 
d <- dist(fascores, method = "euclidean")^2 
How do I do that? 
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8.49.2.2 Real number symbol (UTF-8: a^\204\235) in XeTeX

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How can I get the 'real number' sign (something like \mathbb{R} with the amssymb package in LaTeX) in XeTeX? 
[math-mode] [xetex] [symbols] [amsmath] [plain-tex]
 
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8.49.2.3 Why do the less than symbol (<) and the greater than symbol (>) appear wrong as upside down exclamation (A^\[DownExclamation]) or question mark (A^\[DownQuestion])?

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When typing < or > in LaTeX and compiling with pdflatex, the less than and greater than symbols appear at upside down exclamation points. I'm not in math mode. 
[symbols] [punctuation] [font-encodings]
 
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8.49.2.4 How to prevent LaTeX from hyphenating the entire document?

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I can't find where I can remove any kind of hyphenation and just have LaTeX just do a line break. 
edit: 
Honestly speaking I just don't like to read hyphenation anywhere and that's the only reason why ... 
[hyphenation]
 
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8.49.2.5 What does the phrase "Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph" actually mean?

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What does the actual phrase above mean? 
[errors]
 
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8.49.2.6 How to include SVG diagrams in LaTeX?

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I'm making all my diagrams in SVG format using Inkscape and then I export them to some other format (e.g. PDF, EPS or PNG). I wrote a short script that does this for me automatically, but I'd like to ... 
[graphics] [svg]
 
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8.49.2.7 What point (pt) font size are \Large etc.?

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In the preamble I have: 
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article} 
\usepackage{fontspec} 
\setmainfont{Arial} 
What can be inferred about the real font pt size for the following? 
\tiny, \scriptsize, \... 
[fontsize] [class-options]
 
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