<p>Hi, I solved it and wanted to share the solution in case anyone find this thread in the future.</p>
<p>There is a <strong>Send Selection To</strong> option in the <strong>Edit -> Format</strong> menu.</p>
<p>There I created a new <strong>Custom Command</strong> with this content: <code>recode ascii..html</code></p>
<p>You need to install the <code>recode</code> command for it to work. It will translate the selected text to html, escaping the entities.</p>

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