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In article <1990Aug17.130009.19044@sctc.com> herndon@sctc.com (William R. Herndon) writes:

      with the hyphen persists.  I am using the macros much as one would use 
      a #define in the C language, mostly to save on the problem of maintaining
      these text sections in multiple documents.
well there is  a simple answer then - use the C preprocessor! it would
work as well for TeX source as for C source.

       BTW  Thanks to all who responded.  The capitalization idea, mentioned by
       more than one respondee, is excellent, and I will use it.
your original request is easily answered. the following test file
demonstrates - used in a macro name dependent on \makedashletter and
\makedashother. 

\documentstyle{article}
\begin{document}
\def\makedashletter{\catcode`\-=11\relax}
\def\makedashother{\catcode`\-=12\relax}
\makedashletter  % turn it on
\def\Foo-Bar{hello}
\Foo-Bar  % succeeds
\makedashother   % turn it off
\Foo-Bar  % fails
\end{document}


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