Does anyone have suggestions for an accessible (and libre) word processor?

My father is a writer and has been using LibreOffice through all its iterations (starting from StarWriter on DOS) but starts to struggle now due to Parkinson's. For him, a click too easily becomes a drag, moving symbol bars around or resizing elements on the page. Often, he triggers functions unintentionally.

An editor with a simpler interface (maybe even w/ a simple file manager) could make a big difference for him.

@oilyfish @hanno Something less GUI/mouse intensive might help. If he knew I suppose he would already be using it. What about a simple text editor and ?

@resist1984 @oilyfish Thanks for the suggestions! I think they are on the right track: the fewer clicks needed, the better. #LaTeX would be ideal for his books, but I don't want him to need to debug his document or look out for mismatched parenthesis. #Asciidoc sounds promising -- do you know a good editor to use with it? Preferably one that exports with a single click? How error tolerant is it?

I was already thinking along the lines of #org-mode and a (heavily) down-configured #emacs... ;)

@hanno @oilyfish i've never used .. but i have no doubt that it would be more forgiving than LaTeX. is fussy and error messages are quite nasty (far from describing the cause of the error)

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@oilyfish @hanno i also suspect that he could write in , and if his work would be published professionally it seems to be trivial to convert it to LaTeX for a pro to edit.

@resist1984 @oilyfish Yes, I think that would actually be a big improvement over how he turns things in right now..

The most important thing is really that he doesn't have to deal with a complicated UI but can still do *some* formatting (or I won't be able to convince him..).

Ideally, there are only few (large) buttons, and no other sensitive elements (no tabs, clickable status indicators, ...)

I'll look some more into asciidoc editors -- thanks again for the tip!

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