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Check out Papyrus Office at http://www.rom-logicware.com/. It's really great for scientific documents and it's only 5-10MB on your hard disk.

Papyrus Office is also known to be extremely stable.

-Dennis

People get some wrong impression about MS Office and OS X. It is number one selling software for Macintosh. While I was outside Mac , I saw MS Office and IE for Mac and said "If MS coded that style on windows, they would have many fans". BTW it happens in 2001 or something, while IE for Mac was a good/modern browser having the features added just to IE 7 for windows from that date.

When MS releases a update to MS Office you will see it gets amazing amount of downloads from sites doing counts as Versiontracker. When you check Amazon.com Mac category, you will see it is number 1 selling software for Mac.

While I reply to you in fact I wanted to give information to people checking Slashdot like sites only and get wrong impression. While I am a licensed Papyrus Office ( http://www.rom-logicware.com/ ) user and love it, I can't deny the amazing success of MS Office for Mac.

I heard people claiming MS will give up Mac office etc. because Macs can run Windows or emulate it, it is not the case.

Open Office? Until open source community learns how to treat to people who used to getting polite, informative,friendly (corporate) support... :)

There are alternative editors, but Papyrus seems like the fastest word processor to me. Also, it's available for different systems, not just for Macs, and they have cheap licenses, I think.

I think part of the reason for its speed is that it was originally designed for Atari computers - I used to use Papyrus 3.66 on my 8MHz, 4MB Atari ST in the mid-1990s, and did all my A-levels stuff with it. That was the version written in GFA Basic (but you'd never have guessed from the speed, full WYSIWYG and NeXT-inspired interface), subsequent versions were based on a full rewrite in C.

The programmers behind it definitely know how to produce fast, portable code...

The website!

My work now means I need to use Microsoft Word for everything (Papyrus's import and export features are a bit basic), but if you simply need to print or save as PDF, then Papyrus is well worth a try. There's a near-full-functional demo after all, and once the full version is purchased it's a 6MB download.

Highly recommended.

I use this program, Papyrus, from rom-logicware http://www.rom-logicware.com/ that has got a quite good HTML export function, and also a quite good M$Word import.
The quality of the import varies depending on the source document (for my kind of stuff it's very good), but the quality of the HTML export is EXCELLENT, tidy-proof.
there is a demoversion that basically has got the only limitation of 1page printed with some letters swapped, but any other function is OK.
Also, its size is extremely small (kinda 2-3 MB)

I caught one of those super viruses shortly after I installed Microsoft Office. It crashed my whole computer system and reverted me to Papyrus.

Another lean, but surprisingly modern, full-featured document processor is Papyrus. It's commercial, but available as a (paid-for) 5MB download - for Windows, OS/2, Mac OS X and (still, amazingly) Atari TOS.

I grew up on Papyrus 3 on my old Atari ST, and it's a beautiful program - sadly, there's one major problem, in that it's currently only available in German. An English translation of the latest version is apparently being worked on, but it's been at 'very soon' for months...

Another lean, but surprisingly modern, full-featured document processor is Papyrus. It's commercial, but available as a (paid-for) 5MB download - for Windows, OS/2, Mac OS X and (still, amazingly) Atari TOS.

I grew up on Papyrus 3 on my old Atari ST, and it's a beautiful program - sadly, there's one major problem, in that it's currently only available in German. An English translation of the latest version is apparently being worked on, but it's been at 'very soon' for months...

Give Papyrus from ROM Logicware a try. They have a native OS X version out that looks really nice is is pretty fast. Word import is so-so, though... i don't know if they have an English demo as well, if not, try the German one.

The only drawback with the OS/2 version is that it only supports discrete, not continuous, dictation. This means that you need to pause between each word. For voice navigation, that's not a problem. You also have to go through a three-hour "training" session if you want it to work well.

So before you get all excited about how Linux might beat Windows, you should not forgot that OS/2 is real competitor here.
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