Setting sub-section when section is not numbererd

Question

My code looks something like:

\section*{Perspectives}
\setcounter{subsection}{1}
\subsection{...}

The problem is that the subsection now starts from 0.2 instead of 0.1 initially, whereas I want it to start from 1.0.

Thanks!

Answer 1

sectioning commands advance their own counter. So if you want the numbering of your subsections to start with 1 you must initialize the number to 0: \setcounter{subsection}{0}.

If you want to change the printed output from "0.1" (which is \arabic{section}.\arabic{subsection}) to something else, redefine \thesubsection.

Answer 2

\let\Oldthesubsection\thesubsection
\section*{Perspectives}
\setcounter{subsection}{1}
\renewcommand*\thesubsection{\arabic{subsection}}
\subsection{...}
...
\let\thesubsection\Oldthesubsection
\section{A numbered new one}
...