General ⇒ Clash between the icomma package and revtex4-1 class ?

[Cham]

I'm experiencing a problem with affiliations in the revtex4-1 class, and the icomma package. Here's a MWE to reproduce the problem :

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\RequirePackage[l2tabu,orthodox]{nag}
\documentclass[10pt,letterpaper,nofootinbib,notitlepage]{revtex4-1}
\usepackage[letterpaper,margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\usepackage{icomma}

\begin{document}

\title{La limite de Chandrasekhar}
\author{Phélippe Dêsbiens}
\affiliation{Collège de Montréal, département de physique}
%\date{}
	\begin{center}
		Course number
	\end{center}
\maketitle

\section{A title}

Bla bla bla

\end{document}

What should be the appropriate fix ?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Revtex makes the comma an active character working like a command instead of simply being printed. That breaks with icomma.

A crazy but quick fix would be printing the comma in math mode:

\affiliation{Collège de Montréal$,$ département de physique}

Stefan

[Cham]

The revtex4 class is really painfull. I'm starting to hate it, and I will not use it anymore after these few documents. Too bad, since I like its output style.

For the affiliation, I now understand better what is happening, and I'll use a simple dot instead.