2.24.1 Top new questions this week

2.24.1.1 Placing live Stack Exchange reputation in a document

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/316606/placing-live-stack-exchange-reputation-in-a-document

I want to be able to place my current reputation into a document, such that, when I rebuild the document, the displayed reputation is updated. 
For example, I might write 
My current reputation on  ...
 

- asked by digitalis_ (27 votes), answered by digitalis_ (25 votes)

2.24.1.2 What to decide before writing a math book?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/316933/what-to-decide-before-writing-a-math-book

Until now, I have only written short documents in LaTeX. Whenever I encounter a problem or an error, I google'd it, and copy-paste'd the package/newcommand to my code. 
I use the same beginning code  ...
 

- asked by ThePortakal (26 votes), answered by Zozor (27 votes)

2.24.1.3 Handwritten comments and annotations in margin

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/317190/handwritten-comments-and-annotations-in-margin

Is it possible to typeset handritten comments and annotations in the margins around a parapgaph like in this example? 
What would be the closest approximation of this done in LaTeX?
 

- asked by Bartholomaios (21 votes), answered by Steven B. Segletes (35 votes)

2.24.1.4 Extract first word in a string

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/316730/extract-first-word-in-a-string

The title pretty much says it all, I need a command to get the first word in a string. 
Based on this answer to another question of mine, I tried this: 
\documentclass{article} 
\makeatletter 
...
 

- asked by danielbmarques (16 votes), answered by egreg (16 votes)

2.24.1.5 Is it ok to load a package twice (as long as no extra options are given)?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/317137/is-it-ok-to-load-a-package-twice-as-long-as-no-extra-options-are-given

In 
Loading package twice with \RequirePackage causes "option clash" 
and 
Loading a package more than once 
we see that a package can be loaded multiple times, as long as no options or no  ...
 

- asked by Axel Sommerfeldt (14 votes), answered by egreg (9 votes)

2.24.1.6 Why does \boxN clear the box?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/316810/why-does-boxn-clear-the-box

I understand that w.l.o.g. \box0 puts the content of box 0 and clears the content of box 0, while \copy0 puts the content of box 0 and does not change the content of box 0 at all. 
Whenever I do  ...
 

- asked by user1129682 (12 votes), answered by Joseph Wright (10 votes)

2.24.1.7 How to get the cases brace to be a link

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/316780/how-to-get-the-cases-brace-to-be-a-link

I copied the cases code form amsmath.sty and tried to wrap the \lbrace within a macro and added a \left. to get this to compile.  This of course looses the size info so the brace is not the correct  ...
 

- asked by Peter Grill (10 votes), answered by Andrew Swann (1 vote)