General
◊ How to create SelfReplace application?
- Use the menu “File/Save As…” to save filter file as SelfReplace application.
(Old application “SelfReplace Maker” is obsolete.)

◊ How to increase conversion speed?
- Use the native application. If you have only the PowerReplace 68K, please create and use SelfReplace, because all SelfReplace applications are always Fat.
- Optimize your filter file. (See Chapter 7: Technical Note)

◊ There is a special character in my text file, how to get its ASCII?
- PowerReplace can help you. Convert your text file using the filter file “ShowASCII”. You will see its ASCII in the output file.

◊ My Mac has enough RAM, but why PowerReplace can not work and says "no enough memory to run"?
- The big clipboard may cause memory problem. Try to empty the clipboard.

◊ I like ClarisWorks (or Word) and I use it to write my text. But usully this application saves my text as its document, who is not a text file (of type 'TEXT'). Can PowerReplace help me to find/replace?
- No direct solution. Two indirect solutions:
1. Save your text as text file using the menu “File/Save As…” under the application ClarisWorks (or Word).
2. Select your text and use the “Convert Clipboard” feature. 

About filter file

◊ I would like to replace é by &eacute; for converting my text into HTML format. How to do it?
- It's enough to add the following line in your filter-file:
    "é"           "&eacute;"

◊ Now I would like to do exactly the opposite, it means replace &eacute; by é how about it ?
- This time the following line:
    "&eacute;"    "é" 

◊ How to replace %22 by " (quotation marks)?
- You must use the  special character \" adding the following line:
     "%22"        "\""

◊ OK. But sometimes my text editor cut a word into two for separating two lines as  %2-2 and %-22, how to correct it?
- Add the following lines :
    "%2\n2" "\"" 
    "%2\r2" "\"" 
    "%\n22" "\"" 
    "%\r22" "\"" 

◊ How to remove all words beginning with def?
- Use pattern. 
    'def[a-zA-Zàâäéèêëçùüôö]*'  ""

◊ How to remove a line beginning with % (TeX comment)?
-
    "%*\r"   "\r"
    "%*\n"   "\n"

◊ How to remove all mathmatical formulas in a TeX file?
-
    "$$*$$"    ""
    "$*$"      ""

◊ I would like to replace ef by EF, except ef in def?
- There is an astute method:
    "def"      "my_save"
    "ef"       "EF"
    "my_save"  "def" 

◊ How to replace \alpha by æ (in a TeX file for example)?
- (Don’t forget that there is perhaps \alphabet in the text file). Use pattern and meta.
    #meta        "/"
    '\alpha[^a-zA-Z]'  "æ"