: Re: What software can I use to synchronize corrections and modifications over similar documents? I'm currently working on a large thesis, from which I derive some smaller publications such as papers.

@Murray831

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You might consider using R-Markdown. I can imagine a process where you:

Convert all of your current documents to separate markdowns in plain markdown text
Identify the components you wish to keep the same between documents
Create separate objects containing each piece of text you wish to synchronize
Insert those objects into each of the separate documents

This creates one place where each piece of text "lives", allowing for simultaneous editing of the documents by editing the text in that one object. The pros include flexibility in what counts as a "similar sentence" and complete control of what is synchronized and when. However, this could get very messy with what you define as an object. It would take a fair amount of effort to maintain a coherent structure using this approach.

EDIT:
I mistakenly posted that you cannot spellcheck in markdown.
This post tells how to perform spellchecking in markdown.

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