fix minorticks

src/arg_desc.jl

@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ const _arg_desc = KW(
     :gridlinewidth               => (Real, "Width of the grid lines (in pixels)."),
     :foreground_color_minor_grid => (ColorType, "Color of minor grid lines (`:match` matches `:foreground_color_subplot`)."),
     :minorgrid                   => (Bool, "Adds minor grid lines and ticks to the plot. Set minorticks to change number of gridlines."),
-    :minorticks                  => (Integer, "Intervals to divide the gap between major ticks into."),
+    :minorticks                  => (Integer, "Number of minor ticks between major ticks."),
     :minorgridalpha              => (Real, "The alpha/opacity override for the minorgrid lines."),
     :minorgridstyle              => (Symbol, "Style of the minor grid lines. Choose from $(_allStyles)."),
     :minorgridlinewidth          => (Real, "Width of the minor grid lines (in pixels)."),

src/axes.jl

@@ -343,8 +343,8 @@ function get_minor_ticks(sp, axis, ticks_and_labels)
     end
 
     # default to 9 intervals between major ticks for log10 scale and 5 intervals otherwise
-    n = if typeof(axis[:minorticks]) <: Integer && axis[:minorticks] > 1
-        axis[:minorticks]
+    n = if typeof(axis[:minorticks]) <: Integer && axis[:minorticks] > 0
+        axis[:minorticks] + 1
     else
         scale === :log10 ? 9 : 5
     end