Thanks again for the tips.

Thanks, I have actually seen this section, and I tried changing the fill rule setting, but it didn't seem to have any effect. It's also not clear from the description how this is applied to two paths? The description seems to be for one path which overlaps itself, not one path on top of another, but...

Hi All, I'm a relative newbie to inkscape. I would like to create a path with a given background colour, and some text. I would then like to place another shape on top of this, and where the shape overlap with the text, swap the color of the shape and text. The image below demonstrates the effect I ...