My cursed manuscript was finally accepted. Then I found mistakes during typesetting.

A manuscript on ecology that I am the first author of was accepted for publication in a good Q1 journal recognized in the field. And instead of happiness, I feel super anxious. It is my first paper during my PhD journey.

Let me explain why the manuscript is "cursed". It was under review for 19 months. 6 months for the first review, 13 for the 2nd round. And only when we urged the editor-in-chief that the editor in charge of the manuscript was not responding to our polite questions about the manuscript status, were we informed that they could not find reviewers for the second round, but that one of the initial reviewers had a look and the paper was accepted with minor revisions. I have to admit that after the months of delay, the review felt rushed.

I got the last chance to make changes in the files. I did all checks by printing the document, checking spelling, and double-checking the figures and results. I asked all co-authors (including my PhD tutor) to do the same. They told me they did and that they found no mistakes.

Typesetting came, and I was horrified. The typesetter made some serious mistakes, such as switching lines in tables or omitting half of a figure's legend. But not only that... Upon printing the document and all supplementary material (again), I found a mistake in one figure (a vertical line between the wrong columns), one mistake in a table, a typo in another, and also 2 clear mistakes in the supplementary materials. One has a typo in the name of one of the localities and one grammatical error, and the other has a mistake in a summation. Nothing that would change the results or conclusion, but... mistakes.

And I feel extremely anxious ever since. I am angry at myself for not seeing the mistakes earlier, but also questioning how it passed the reviewers' and co-authors' checks. As a first author, I accept the responsibility, but it also made me feel like I am left unsupervised and without real help.

And that I tried my best, and it was not enough. I feel ashamed.

I corrected the mistakes using the typesetting interface and will soon send it to the typesetter. But I am worried that some of these might be seen as too much for typesetting issues. I am not even sure if supplementary materials can be changed. And I have no idea what would happen if that was truth.

My supervisor (with whom I have a terrible relationship, I might post about it one day) just told me I should not worry too much. "The paper was accepted, and we already paid for the publication. You are now their master." And that is more or less all he told me. But all these formal sentences in the authors guidelines and e-mails I am receiving seem so scary...

So... what do you think will happen? What is the worst that can happen? And how can I cope with the feeling of blame and failure?