@st_albert...My grateful thanks for confirming that the plugin works on Linux.
I also had a re-think about your <i> <b> <u> question. You could certainly do it with S&R as you suggest. But it would also be very easy for me to change my plugin to to get rid of these <b> <i> and <u> tags and replace all of them with their <span> equivalents in the html file.
Here's a code example of how to do it using bs4