How to deal with y=0 tic for special formatted label

Question

Suppose I have a script like this

set terminal png enhanced
set output "test.png"
set ytics format "%.1t 10^{%S}"
set ytics 5000
set mytics 5
set xrange [0:16000]
plot x

Which produces the following. Sample figure

I do wnat major tics as well as minor tics. However, the tic at zero looks ugly, so I would like to modify or delete it.

I tried set ytics (5000,10000,15000). This is possible, but then I loose the minor tics. Also, I don't want to put the tics manually.

So a solution to this problem would

remove the y=0 tic or
modify the set ytics format or
adds minor tics for manual major tics, but according to the manual this is not possible.

An other solution that I didn't think of is of course also appreciated!

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

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You can just overwrite the 0 tic with set ytics ('0' 0):

set ytics format "%.1t 10^{%S}"
set ytics 5000
set ytics add ('0' 0)
set mytics 5
set xrange [0:16000]
plot x

enter image description here

edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

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answered Nov 08 '13 at 12:07

Christoph

Thanks, I flagged my question as a duplicate, because I think the other question answers everything. However, I didn't find it earlier. – Bernhard Nov 08 '13 at 12:16

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