gnuplot set equal distance for ticks on both axes

Question

In gnuplot, I want to plot with x-ticks as [0,1,2,...] and y-ticks as [0,2,4,...], but I also want the tick on both axes to have the same length to make the plot look nicer. I tried

set size ratio 1
set xtics 0,1,6
set ytics 0,2,10

But that does not work. How could I do that?

An example plot is below (source: Computational Plasticity, de Souza Neto)

Answer 1

In your example you have 5 units in y-direction and 6 units in x-direction. In order to give them the same visual length you need to set:

set size ratio 5./6.   # decimal point to avoid gnuplot's integer division

Check help size.

Script:

### set aspect ratio
reset session

set size ratio 5./6.

set xrange[0:6]
set xtics 1
set yrange[0:10]
set ytics 2
set grid x,y

plot x**2
### end of script

Result: