Roman Numerals for page number in List of Abbreviations [duplicate]

Question

In my report, I am using too many abbreviations. I am using nomenclature structure to create and print them in my document. I want to make roman page numbering up till list of abbreviations. Since my list of abbreviations has gone up to two pages, LaTeX now print arabic page number on the second page of list of abbreviations, which looks very odd to me. I want to write roman letters on the second page.

Any help?

Answer 1

Apparently \clearpage before \pagenumbering solved the question, otherwise the following \pagenumbering command leaks backwards.

To see this, remove \cleardoublepage in the following example → the arabic page numbers are even in the List of Abbrevations although roman was specified before.

\documentclass{report}

\usepackage{blindtext}

\newcommand{\listofabbreviations}{%
  \section*{Fake command}
  \blindtext[6]
}

\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{roman}
\listofabbreviations
\cleardoublepage
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\tableofcontents

\chapter{First chapter}

\end{document}