Mellel

I simply find it more pleasant to write onto a screen uncluttered by rulers and toolbars which I either don't use at all or only need once the actual content has already been produced (although I do this with the appropriate views in Scrivener or Mellel, rather than with WriteRoom).

WriteRoom For Google Docs Adds Distraction-Free Writing To Browser | Lifehacker Australia 2009

A word processor, Mellel, offers an alternative to Word that promises to be helpful in compiling long documents with different sections.

Archive 2008-08-01 Jonathan 2008

A word processor, Mellel, offers an alternative to Word that promises to be helpful in compiling long documents with different sections.

MacUpdate Back to School promo Jonathan 2008

I simply find it more pleasant to write onto a screen uncluttered by rulers and toolbars which I either don't use at all or only need once the actual content has already been produced although I do this with the appropriate views in Scrivener or Mellel, rather than with WriteRoom.

WriteRoom For Google Docs Adds Distraction-Free Writing To Browser | Lifehacker Australia 2009

Meaning, if you wrote something in Mellel and then decided not to buy it, as I did, because of the obnoxious pop up window and not-great user friendliness, the work is effectively lost.

Death to You, Sir. yuki_onna 2009

You can't even copy/paste within a Mellel document.

Death to You, Sir. yuki_onna 2009

Edit from justbeast : Ok, it looks like Mellel stored its files in a xml + gzipped binary format.

Death to You, Sir. yuki_onna 2009

And since it saves in a proprietary format, one not readable by any other softare ever, you cannot ever work with anything you wrote in Mellel again unless you pay their blood money.

Death to You, Sir. yuki_onna 2009

There are several other worthy w-p programs for the Mac, both free (Bean) and commercial (Mellel, Nisus Writer, Scrivener).

Computer Envy « knitnut.net 2007

Mellel and Nisus are other apps to look at on the Mac side of the fence.

Word 2007 Beta — Shiny! « Whatever 2006