Underlying a word in the table

Hi

Just wanted to ask the question. I want to create experiment in which I would display a picture, then shortly after display a word and then underline one of the letters from that word. Part of the script would look like that:

table mytable
    bitmap1 "ball" "ball"

task my_task
    table mytable
    keys 1 2 3 4 5 6
    show bitmap @1
    delay 1000

    clear

    show text @2

    readkey 1 1000000
    clear

block test
    tasklist
    my_task 3 all_before_repeat
        end

The problem is that in order to the underline the second word I would have to code it like that; "b<u>a</u>ll"

However, psytoolkit reads it exactly like that so instead of returning ball I am having b<u>a</u>ll

Is there a way to modify the text while the word is in the quotation marks and whithout making significant changes to the code?

Regards,

Krystian