There are loads and loads of options, menus, buttons - my friend tends to get confused by that, and it would be a nightmare for me to support him. Then I tried TeXstudio, which I could see myself using if I were doing LaTeX more casually, but there is just too much going on, visually. I took a look at LyX, but it's too WYSYWIG - he has no fine motor skills to click at elements rendered on-screen.
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He needs a very simple, non-overwhelming offline editor and just the bare minimum of macros to write his non-technical articles. Unfortunately, my friend does not need all that. I know LaTeX from about 20 years back when I used it extensively for my thesis I am used to editing TeX/LaTeX in Emacs and fiddling around a lot with all the goodies. So the default output from (La)TeX should be right up his alley. He does not need to meet any publishing specs and does it for fun he delights in producing nice-looking documents. Especially since he has a knack of pressing keys that somehow change the document formatting on other pages, so he has no idea that it happened until he reviews the document, which turns out to be 80% broken at that point. It is then very hard to reverse-engineer what he actually did, so he often breaks his documents. He uses Word so far, which gets really messed up when he (frequently) misclicks or mistypes.
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I am preparing a solution for a handicapped friend who needs a simple way to create 30+ page 2/3-column PDF articles.