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
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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.
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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/
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
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