New on CTAN: sesameseeds
Datum: 4. November 2026 16:11:26 MEZ
M. Fatih Toy submitted the
sesameseeds
package.
Version: 1.1 2026-11-03
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: Sprinkle roasted sesame seeds and simit crumbs over your pages
Announcement text:
sesameseeds 1.1 is a new, light-hearted LaTeX package that makes a document look as if it was read by an academic eating a simit (the Turkish sesame-crusted bread ring) over the printout. Features: - Every page receives a random but reproducible scatter of oven-roasted sesame seeds and crumbs of caramelised crust, drawn with TikZ. The debris is identical on every compilation. - Seeds cluster where the simit was held, with a few strays that bounced across the page; some come off in pairs and a few are over-roasted. - Five mess levels (light to catastrophic) and options for seed size, roast, spread, black sesame, crumbs, title page, and drawing over or under the text. - Hand-placed debris: \sesamesprinkle for a handful of seeds, \sesameseed for a single seed, and \simitring for the ring of seeds and crumbs left where a simit was put down. - \nosesame keeps a page clean ("read with a napkin"), \sesameoff and \sesameon pause the mess, and the package option "off" removes everything for the camera-ready version. Works with pdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX (LaTeX 2020-10 or newer, TikZ, pgfopts). The documentation is itself a short paper on the stochastic deposition of Sesamum indicum seeds on scholarly manuscripts. Afiyet olsun.
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/sesameseeds The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/contrib/sesameseeds/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs
sesameseeds 1.1 is a new, light-hearted LaTeX package that makes a document look as if it was read by an academic eating a simit (the Turkish sesame-crusted bread ring) over the printout. Features: - Every page receives a random but reproducible scatter of oven-roasted sesame seeds and crumbs of caramelised crust, drawn with TikZ. The debris is identical on every compilation. - Seeds cluster where the simit was held, with a few strays that bounced across the page; some come off in pairs and a few are over-roasted. - Five mess levels (light to catastrophic) and options for seed size, roast, spread, black sesame, crumbs, title page, and drawing over or under the text. - Hand-placed debris: \sesamesprinkle for a handful of seeds, \sesameseed for a single seed, and \simitring for the ring of seeds and crumbs left where a simit was put down. - \nosesame keeps a page clean ("read with a napkin"), \sesameoff and \sesameon pause the mess, and the package option "off" removes everything for the camera-ready version. Works with pdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX (LaTeX 2020-10 or newer, TikZ, pgfopts). The documentation is itself a short paper on the stochastic deposition of Sesamum indicum seeds on scholarly manuscripts. Afiyet olsun.
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/sesameseeds The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/contrib/sesameseeds/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs
Sesameseeds – Sprinkle roasted sesame seeds and simit crumbs over your pages
Scatters oven-roasted sesame seeds and crumbs of simit crust (the Turkish sesame bread ring) over the pages of a document, as if an academic had eaten a simit over the printout.
The debris is drawn with TikZ and is random but reproducible. It clusters where the simit was held, and seeds can also be placed by hand, including the ring left where a simit was put down.
A light-hearted relative of the coffee-stain packages coffeestains and fun-coffee.tex.
| Paket | Sesameseeds |
| Version | 1.1 2026-11-03 |
| Copyright | 2026 M. Fatih Toy and Tunçer Baykaş |
| Betreuer | M. Fatih Toy |