Formatting of example sentences

[Kurt A]

[topic moved to the ‘Scientific Writing’ forum]

I have found some errors, which involve commas, in Festival. I want to contrast two phrases, one with a comma (erroneous) and one without (normal), but as you can imagine it’s a bit unwieldy. To illustrate:

Unlike the phrase “dog”, the phrase “dog,” is erroneous.
We compare “dog”, “dog,”, and “dog.”.

I thought of some solutions to this:

1. Saying something like: ‘ “dog” with a comma and without a comma ‘ (still confusing)
2. Using longer examples: “dog, cat” and “dog cat” (I don’t want to do this)
3. Using different fonts for example phrases. (I’ve not seen this in sample texts, so I’m not sure)
4. Write example phrases in separate lines and possibly label them like equations in textbooks. (Ditto)

What would be the best approach?

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