Thank you for your explanations, Jochen and Michael. Two of the members of the committee developing the new course *do* use tabs as their main output format. Therefore, I think the course needs to show students how to use both styles and tabs.
Incidentally, in case anyone else needs to do this in Sky, there is one wrinkle I wanted to point out. For main entry turnover lines, you just need to add a hanging indent. For subentry turnover lines, there is an additional step that I explain below.
1. Choose "RTF Tabs" in the Document Options: Output Format/Markup Tags dialog box. This gives you an RTF file with tabs for the subheading indents. As we've been discussing, there are no hanging indents for turnover lines in the exported RTF file.
2. Within Microsoft Word, in the "Modify Styles" dialog box, click the "Format" box at the bottom left of the box, and click on "Paragraph." In the "Indentation" section in the middle of the Paragraph dialog box, under "Special," choose "Hanging." The "By" box will show the amount of the hanging indent, which you can adjust if desired. This will create the hanging indent for turnover lines in MAIN entries.
3. For SUBENTRIES, an additional step is needed to create the hanging indent. If you just do the above, the whole subentry level (first line of the subentry plus any turnover lines) moves to the right. So, you have to create a tab stop setting *first*. In the "Format" box at the bottom left of the "Modify Styles" dialog box, click on "Tabs." The cursor should be in the "Tab stop position" box. Enter the amount that you want for the general subentry indents (remember, this is not the hanging indent for turnover lines). Then click "Set" and "OK." Now go back and create a hanging indent as in step 2 above.
Many thanks to my fellow committee member who is a Word whiz and helped me figure this out!
- Shana Milkie