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Written by Dima Pasechnik 🇺🇦 🇳🇱 on 2025-01-18 at 01:18

adventures in maths publishing in commercial journals, part N+1

We wrote https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.18897 - it went through few journals before being taken up by De Gruyter's Special Matrices. (Some) reviews were quite helpful, we improved the text, got some new cute things in along the way. Submitting final version was, however, problematic. They have a LaTeX style file which was last touched in 2017, and it requires LaTeX from 2014 (sic!). After a bit of struggle I gave up and told the journal that they'll need to fix it themselves (after all, they have hefty APCs, all paid by my ex-employer).

Proofs arrived, and, lo and behold, they apparently converted it to Word and then to PDF, rendering all the nice TeX typesetting into crap. I told the editor that this won't do, they have to do it properly (e.g. hiring someone to fix the style file...) #LaTeX

here's an example of their so-called typesetting

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