Specifying unlabeled FrameTicks in Plot

Question

I am running Mathematica 7. Suppose that I plot $\sin(x)$ for $x = 0..10$ and frame the plot using Frame -> True:

Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 10}, PlotRange -> All, Frame -> True]

Plot 1

Now suppose that I would like the horizontal axis to have ticks every $0.5$ (which it does), but with the ticks labeled only every $1$. Is there a way to do this?

FrameTicks seemed to be a possibility, but when I used Range[0, 10, 1] in the bottom horizontal axis specification, I lost the (non-labeled) ticks at every $0.5$:

Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 10}, PlotRange -> All, Frame -> True, 
 FrameTicks -> {{Automatic, Automatic}, {Range[0, 10, 1], Automatic}}]

Plot 2

Thanks for your time.

Does FrameTicks -> {{Automatic, Automatic}, {Join[Range[0, 10], Thread[{Range[0.5, 10, 1.], " "}]], Automatic}}] work? — kglr, Jan 14 '13 at 22:37
With the documentation for Frameticks or the results of this search http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/search?q=frameticks you should have no trouble. — DavidC, Jan 14 '13 at 22:37
Here's an example of using CustomTicks. I think you'd end up rewriting the same thing anyway. It saves times to just use CustomTicks and you'll get a prettier output with less work. — Szabolcs, Jan 14 '13 at 23:30

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 14 '13 at 22:50

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Using kguler's comment (thank you!), I get the following, which is the output I was looking for:

Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 10}, PlotRange -> All, Frame -> True, 
 FrameTicks -> {{Automatic, Automatic}, 
  {Join[Range[0, 10], Thread[{Range[0.5, 10, 1], " "}]], Automatic}}]

Plot 3

answered Jan 14 '13 at 22:50

Andrew

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you can control the labels,positions and styling of ticks more finely using the second, third and fourth arguments. Try, for example, Frameticks-> {{Automatic, Automatic}, {Join[{#, #, {.01, 0}} & /@ Range[0, 10], {#, " ", {.0075, 0}, Directive[Red, Thick]} & /@ Range[0.5, 10, 1.]], Automatic}}. (+1) – kglr Jan 14 '13 at 22:56

Specifying unlabeled FrameTicks in Plot

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