Install .mplstyles files about mplhep HOT 4 CLOSED

@andrewfowlie We used to have it setup that way, but it's not entirely kosher to directly modify another package's files. The fact that the .mplstyle files exist is an atavism of that approach. There's a helper function to copy the style files to mpl directory here https://github.com/scikit-hep/mplhep/blob/master/mplhep/tools.py#L6 though the styles may not be 100% up to date.

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I see - I didn’t realise that the mplstyles files had that status. The preferred methods for distributing and installing rc settings isn’t that clear from the matplotlib docs.

For the specific case in mind I wanted to call plt.style.use with a string rather than a dict and have access to a list of all available styles. Your copying functions will help.

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I don't think that's something originally thought of at mpl. What benefit do you get by calling say plt.style.use("ROOT") as opposed to plt.style.use(hep.style.ROOT) ?

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I have another code that plots some statistical quantities. The theme - default, classic, etc - is set by a string in a config file or selected through a GUI from the plt.styles.available list. Nothing important and unlikely to be a common problem :D

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