Post #2516095

2026-05-04 19:41 UTC

The people handling typesetting for my most recent article are from a company called Straive; here is their website: https://straive.com/ If you&#39;re thinking, wow, this looks like a group that definitely knows about and cares about mathematical typesetting... I&#39;m sorry to tell you, that&#39;s not the case. I&#39;ve had some frustrations with typesetting services in the past, but this is a new level of content-free interaction. Never have I been more certain that my &quot;feedback&quot; is going straight to the garbage bin (but probably via some LLM on the way). Anyway, did they do a passable job with the typesetting? Nope! Did they correct their typesetting according to our feedback? Partly! Are we giving up? Yes! We have better things to do. The correct version of our paper is on the arxiv. [edit: fixed url to a different embarrassing website]

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@nilesjohnson@mathstodon.xyz 2026-05-04 19:46

Oh, and what journal is this for? It's Applied Categorical Structures https://link.springer.com/journal/10485 The automated emails we get say "Straive is a service provider of Springer Nature". I already didn't love publishing in Springer journals; perhaps this will be the thing that finally makes me avoid them altogether.

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@11011110@mathstodon.xyz 2026-05-04 20:15

@nilesjohnson@mathstodon.xyz Are you sure that's the correct Strave? The link goes to a Mexican consulting firm but Springer's typesetting is by a company named Strave in India that appears to have little or no inline presence.

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@matthras@aus.social 2026-05-05 00:47

@nilesjohnson@mathstodon.xyz I, uh, are you looking for another typesetter that definitely understands mathematical typesetting? 😅 Not sure if engaging an Australian company is on the charts, but let me know! With the disclaimer that I've worked with them on maths textbook stuff, but they've done typesetting for an economics journal and I've had to help them with the LaTeX conversion.

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@rajeesh@typo.social 2026-05-05 07:25

@nilesjohnson@mathstodon.xyz Are you sure it is strave.com and not straive.com?

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