Weekly github digest (svgwg, svg-aam, fxtf-drafts, graphics-aam, graphics-aria)

Issues
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* w3c/svgwg (+0/-3/💬12)
  8 issues received 12 new comments:
  - #537 Character counting in text 'x', 'y', 'dx', 'dy', and 'rotate' attributes. (4 by litherum, svgeesus, css-meeting-bot, AmeliaBR)
    https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/issues/537 [Needs editing] [Needs tests] [Text chapter] [i18n-tracking] 
  - #622 Support background-color on SVG text (2 by karip, AmeliaBR)
    https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/issues/622 [CSS Consistency] [Painting chapter] [SVG Core] [Text chapter] 
  - #611 letter-spacing definition "removes" percentage - not possible (1 by svgeesus)
    https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/issues/611 [Needs editing] [Text chapter] 
  - #71 SVG 2 has un-used references (1 by svgeesus)
    https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/issues/71 [Appendices] [Needs editing] [SVG Core] 
  - #424 Do we really need not to reflect additional enum values in SVG 2 (1 by fsoder)
    https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/issues/424 [Filters] [Needs tests] [SVG Markers] 
  - #618 Confused about 'writing-mode' with 'direction' (1 by svgeesus)
    https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/issues/618 
  - #619 Clarify the baseline value during the top-to-bottom writing mode for Latin text (1 by svgeesus)
    https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/issues/619 
  - #113 Remove redundant <dl> wrapper for the attribute table + prose block of each element (1 by svgeesus)
    https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/issues/113 [Agenda+] [Entire spec] [Needs editing] [SVG Core] 

  3 issues closed:
  - Confused about 'writing-mode' with 'direction' https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/issues/618 
  - Clarify the baseline value during the top-to-bottom writing mode for Latin text https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/issues/619 
  - letter-spacing definition "removes" percentage - not possible https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/issues/611 [Needs editing] [Text chapter] 

* w3c/fxtf-drafts (+0/-0/💬2)
  1 issues received 2 new comments:
  - #53 [filter-effects-2] Backdrop filters should not use BackgroundImage (2 by mfreed7)
    https://github.com/w3c/fxtf-drafts/issues/53 [filter-effects-2] 



Pull requests
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* w3c/svgwg (+4/-4/💬3)
  4 pull requests submitted:
  - add missing changes for DOMMatrix2DInit (by svgeesus)
    https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/pull/626 
  - fix #591 (by svgeesus)
    https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/pull/625 
  - fix #611 (by svgeesus)
    https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/pull/624 
  - fix #609 (by svgeesus)
    https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/pull/623 

  3 pull requests received 3 new comments:
  - #577 Use DOMMatrix2DInit as parameters for methods. #326 (1 by AmeliaBR)
    https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/pull/577 
  - #624 fix #611 (1 by svgeesus)
    https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/pull/624 
  - #571 Remove iframe, video, audio, canvas and unknown elements due to lack … (1 by AmeliaBR)
    https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/pull/571 

  4 pull requests merged:
  - fix #611
    https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/pull/624 
  - add missing changes for DOMMatrix2DInit
    https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/pull/626 
  - Use DOMMatrix2DInit as parameters for methods. #326
    https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/pull/577 
  - Update current/former editors list
    https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/pull/621 [Introduction chapter] [SVG Core] 


Repositories tracked by this digest:
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* https://github.com/w3c/svgwg
* https://github.com/w3c/svg-aam
* https://github.com/w3c/fxtf-drafts
* https://github.com/w3c/graphics-aam
* https://github.com/w3c/graphics-aria