Stop asking Besley for tabular figures in the hero stats

Besley's `tnum` set is broken: the tabular zero is frozen at a 55-unit
advance on every weight while 1-9 track the weight axis (57 at 400, 59.5
at 600, 66 at 700+). The zero is the one digit that never gets heavier,
so at the hero's 800 it renders 17% narrower than its neighbours and
reads as if it had lost the bold — "13 930" with a thin final digit.

Ask for lining figures instead. Nothing is lost: these counts are static
markup, not a column that has to align digit-for-digit.

Set through font-feature-settings rather than font-variant-numeric
because _body.scss sets an inherited "onum"/"pnum" that outranks the
high-level property — the same reason _headings.scss spells out "lnum".

Bump to 2.9.7.

Author: fmadore

CITATION.cff

@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ authors:
     given-names: Frédérick
     orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0959-2092"
     affiliation: "University of Bayreuth"
-version: "2.9.6"
-date-released: "2026-08-05"
+version: "2.9.7"
+date-released: "2026-08-06"
 license: GPL-3.0-or-later
 repository-code: "https://github.com/fmadore/IWAC-theme"
 url: "https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/"

asset/css/style.css

@@ -385,7 +385,17 @@
         font-weight: 800;
         line-height: 1;
         letter-spacing: var(--tracking-display);
-        font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
+        // Lining figures, NOT tabular. Besley ships a broken `tnum` set: its
+        // tabular zero is frozen at a 55-unit advance on every weight, while
+        // 1-9 track the weight axis (57 at 400, 59.5 at 600, 66 at 700+). So
+        // the zero is the one digit that never gets heavier — at 800 it is 17%
+        // narrower than its neighbours and reads as un-bolded ("13 930"). The
+        // heavier the face, the worse; there is no safe weight. These counts
+        // are static markup, so tabular alignment bought nothing anyway.
+        // Declared as font-feature-settings rather than font-variant-numeric
+        // because body's inherited "onum"/"pnum" settings override the
+        // high-level property (same reason _headings.scss spells out "lnum").
+        font-feature-settings: "kern" 1, "liga" 1, "lnum" 1;
         color: var(--white);
 
         @media (min-width: 400px) { font-size: var(--text-xl); }
@@ -444,7 +454,8 @@
         font-weight: 800;
         line-height: 1.05;
         letter-spacing: var(--tracking-display);
-        font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
+        // Lining, not tabular — Besley 800's broken zero, see __stat-figure.
+        font-feature-settings: "kern" 1, "liga" 1, "lnum" 1;
         color: var(--white);
 
         @media (min-width: $md) { font-size: var(--text-xl); }

asset/sass/components/banner/_banner.scss

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [info]
 name = "IWAC Theme"
-version = "2.9.6"
+version = "2.9.7"
 author = "Frédérick Madore"
 description = "Islam West Africa Collection Theme - A customized Omeka S theme for the IWAC digital collection at ZMO Berlin. Features light/dark mode toggle and multilingual support."
 theme_link = "https://github.com/fmadore/IWAC-theme"

config/theme.ini

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "iwac-theme",
-  "version": "2.9.6",
+  "version": "2.9.7",
   "description": "Islam West Africa Collection Theme - A customized Omeka S theme for the IWAC digital collection.",
   "main": "gulpfile.js",
   "scripts": {