Include Page Number in Abstract

Question

I'm trying to include a page number on my abstract page. Here is how I have it set up so far (cutting out some extra things):

\documentclass[letterpaper,12pt]{report}
\usepackage[style=numeric]{biblatex}
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\usepackage{verbatim}
\usepackage{framed}
\usepackage{setspace}

\begin{document}

\pagenumbering{roman}
\title{The Title}
\author{The Name}
\maketitle

\setcounter{page}{2}
\begin{abstract}
\pagenumbering{roman}
Lorem Ipsum etc, etc.
\end{abstract}

This generates a document without page numbers on either the title or the abstract. I don't need to put one on the title, but is there a way I can force it to insert a page number for the abstract?

Thanks!

Edit for clarification: I needed to use roman numbering for all the intro sections (abstract, index, etc), then switch to arabic for the rest of the paper. I ended up with the following:

\begin{abstract}
\thispagestyle{plain}
\pagenumbering{roman}
\setcounter{page}{2}
\end{abstract}

Answer 1

Add \thispagestyle{plain} immediately after starting your abstract environment. (In the report class, at the begin of the abstract environment, \titlepage is called internally by default, which sets \thispagestyle{empty}.)

EDIT: If you want to switch to arabic page numbering for the rest of your paper, consider to use the book class instead of report and to use its \frontmatter and \mainmatter commands. You may emulate the behaviour of report with \documentclass[oneside]{book}. (Note that the book class doesn't provide an abstract environment; however, an unnumbered frontmatter chapter is quite suited for an abstract of a longer work.)

Answer 2

The following solution works with

• abstracts that start after a number of pages,
• abstracts which are followed by a number of pages, and
• multi-page abstracts.

\newcounter{abstractpage}
\setcounter{abstractpage}{\value{page}}

\begin{abstract}
  \thispagestyle{plain}
  \setcounter{page}{\value{abstractpage}}

  Lorem ipsum.

  \setcounter{abstractpage}{\value{page}}
\end{abstract}

\setcounter{page}{\value{abstractpage}}
\stepcounter{page}