Thank you so much! I followed your directions, and combined with a bit more tweaking, got basically what I was looking for. Hurray!

It's still not quite as tidy as I would like, but it's good enough for current purposes

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Hi all; I've just gotten started using inkscape, so of course I manage to get myself into something I can't Google my way out of the first try :) I'm designing a logo that needs to have text curved ("Howling Wolf"), vertically, along a crescent. I can get the text attached to the path, but...