Ticks formatting in PGF, how to switch to completely decimal without powers of 10

Question

The ticks are sticking close to each other, almost overlapping. How to change the ticks from $2.5\cdot 10^{-2}$ to just $0.025$ without changing the dimensions of the diagram ?

\begin{tikzpicture}
\pgfplotsset{width={.5\textwidth},height={6 cm}}
\begin{axis}[ylabel={$\ln (I/I_0)$},
grid=major,
legend style={ legend pos= north east,},
xtick distance= .025,
]
\addplot[red, mark=square, only marks,]coordinates{
(0., 0.) (0.025, -0.842) (0.05, -1.671) (0.075, -2.217) (0.1, -2.823)};
\legend{$\theta = 11.0^\circ$; $\lambda = 0.77$ pm}
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}

The after a comment

Thanks!, I used yticklabel style={/pgf/number format/fixed} but precision is reduced, so I get 0.03 instead of 0.025, any fix ? — Physor, Dec 12 '21 at 11:55
You need to use it combined (and for the x axis, of course): xticklabel style={/pgf/number format/fixed, /pgf/number format/precision=3}. — Jasper Habicht, Dec 12 '21 at 12:00
@ Jasper Habicht, Though it did not impact the answer to this question, but worked like wonder for my plot after hours of trying. — Ahmed Aafaq, Sep 18 '23 at 09:01

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 12 '21 at 12:03

Try this:

\documentclass[border=1mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\pgfplotsset{width={.5\textwidth},height={6 cm}}
\begin{axis}[ylabel={$\ln (I/I_0)$},
grid=major,
legend style={legend pos=north east},
xtick distance=.025,
xticklabel style={/pgf/number format/fixed, /pgf/number format/precision=3}
]
\addplot[red, mark=square, only marks,]coordinates{
(0., 0.) (0.025, -0.842) (0.05, -1.671) (0.075, -2.217) (0.1, -2.823)};
\legend{$\theta = 11.0^\circ$; $\lambda = 0.77$ pm}
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

Ticks formatting in PGF, how to switch to completely decimal without powers of 10

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