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!? is much more common than ?! in Japanese literature (see !? in nicopedia), although many laypeople do not care about the order. It is not very common in serious novels, but some old novels like 蟹工船 …

Yes parentheses are used like this in novels. From Wikipedia 括弧: 小説等の文学作品やゲーム作品では、会話に表れない心中表現や外国人や動物のセリフの訳文であることを示すのに用いることがある。また、ゲーム作品においては、回想シーンやテレパシー（実際に喋っていない）等での会話に用いる事もある。 And "(?)" as in " …

「正式な」というのが、「義務教育の国語の授業で学ぶ」という意味であれば、Noです。中学校までに「日本語の文章を書く時の正式なダブルクォートの使い方」というものを学ぶことはないはずです。 また、ネットで参照できる 公用文の書き方の規程 や 翻訳家向けのスタイルガイド でも、日本語文章中でのダブルクォートの使い方について、全く、または、ほとんど載っていません。 例外的に、科学技術文書のガイドライン内で …

It's a ダッシュ. It also works like an English em-dash, but here it's adding an "emotion" to the sentence. It makes the sentence look somewhat like a monologue. Its purpose here is the same as Japanese 三点 …

This sentence seems to focus on the relationship between the two characters (レックス & ホムラ) rather than three. So I think it's more natural to read that part as "who is also ヒカリ". (But...does this use of …

There is no special symbol for this, but simple brackets () can be used in most cases. They are especially common in interview articles, where the editor has to fix or supplement what was actually sai …

In general, typographically speaking, Japanese kana and kanji look much better inside Japanese full-width (or 全角, double-byte) parentheses. Because English characters like 'j', 'y' can extend below th …

Some punctuation marks imported from Western countries tend to be wider in Japanese typography, because ordinary characters like kanji are already wider than English letters. …

Either a 3点リーダー or a dash is used for this purpose. Note that a Japanese dash is usually longer than an English em-dash. The last example (leaving a Latin consonant) is fairly unconventional, but i …

Unfortunately these are frequently produced by people who are not good at computers or punctuation marks. It's also bad to insert space(s) between leaders (… …). …

This sentence appeared ambiguous and poorly-written to me. After looking at some articles about Struts, I think this sentence should mean: An action servlet consists of a collection of action mapp …

This is a common practice also in Japanese (called 脚注 "footnotes"). But Japanese people tend to use superscript kome-jirushi (※) instead of the asterisk. When there are many footnotes, numbered kome-j …

USJに行ったことがありますか。 Have you ever been to USJ? (polite) This is perfectly natural and correct as a polite question, and no question mark is necessary. A question mark should even be avoided in a very f …

Which is the intended meaning of your Sentence (1)? A: It was actually raining when I went out, so I took an umbrella. It ended up being useful in some other way (say, as a photography reflector or a …

Such hyphens should be much shorter than Japanese 長音記号 (long vowel marker). Here's how おみやげ and ラーメン should look in a dictionary entry (screenshot of goo辞書): If you are really seeing a long bar a …