[Tex/LaTex] single-column revtex4-1 adds a page break after the title section

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Using revtex4-1 in single-column mode produces a page break after the abstract. This is not the behavior with revtex4. The minimal example is really simple:

\documentclass{revtex4-1}
\begin{document}
\title{Some stupid title}
\maketitle
The body of the paper goes here.
\end{document}

Adding author, abstract, whatever, doesn't make any difference. The result is two pages, where the title is on page 1, but the text is on page 2. Just switching the documentclass back to revtex4 gives me a single page, as expected. What's going on?

I've updated my entire installation through texlive (2010), and have

revtex4-1 2010/07/25/20:33:00 4.1r

Looking at the APS website, this looks like it's the most recent version.

Best Answer

By default, revtex4-1 reserves a whole page to typeset the title and the author(s) information; to change this behaviour, you need to use the notitlepage class option:

\documentclass[notitlepage]{revtex4-1}