How to start numbering other than 1 in pdf? (tried number-offset: 2, but no success)

[entelecheia1963]

Description

I am generating different chapters of a workbook using different .ipynb files. I want to sections numbers to start at a defined value rather than the default '1'. I have tried the below .. but that does work for me. What am I doing wrong?

---
title : Heading numbering
subtitle : Want to start at level 2
author : Me
date: 25/11/2023
format: 
  pdf:
    toc: true
    number-offset: 2
    number-sections: true
    colorlinks: true
    papersize: A4
    lof: true
    code-line-numbers: true
highlight-style: zenburn
execute:
  echo: true
  code-overflow: wrap
---

# Heading should be 2
## Should be 2.1
## should be 2.2
# should be 3
## should be 3.1

The result I get is this:

[mcanouil]

It seems to have an error in the reference pages.
number-offset is a Pandoc option which is only valid for HTML (https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#options) as it is no used in the template, thus the same applies to Quarto.

Now the question is, should a PR be made to update the LaTeX template on Pandoc side to be compatible with this option (cc @cderv).

Meanwhile you can use $\LaTeX$ to get offset.

include-in-header:
  - text: |
      \setcounter{section}{3}

[mcanouil]

I opened an issue to track this:

• number-offset is only valid for html, should it work also for LaTeX? #7702

Actually, there was already one:

• number-offset in PDF output for Quarto is not working. #6842

[mcanouil]

I made a PR to update the documentation until there is really a support for this.

• docs: number-offset is HTML only option #7703

[entelecheia1963]

That worked! Excellent! Thank you.