I'd also advise going to the Stroke style tab and making the "Join" type the middle, rounded type, as otherwise the stroke deals with sharp angles by making a big spike or just sorta stopping once it gets to the point of the angle, but with rounded joins it makes a consistent curve around them. As only half of the stroke is shown the width of the visible part is half of the actual thickness of the stroke - so if you want an outline of 1 pixel, make the stroke 2 pixels thick. But by making a copy and moving it back the text itself stays the same and only the outward part of the stroke is shown around it. The way strokes work is that they radiate from the edge of the shape, but they radiate outward and inward equally - so it can cover up part of the shape itself, which is particularly noticable on text. With the copy still selected, go to the Fill and Stroke dialog (Ctrl+Shift+F) and add a stroke. If you want a thicker border the best method is to copy the text and paste it in place (Ctrl+Alt+V or "Paste in place" from the Edit drop-down menu), then move the copy behind the original text with Page Down or End. If you just want a thin outline then you can just select the text, go to the Fill and Stroke dialog (Ctrl+Shift+F) and add a stroke to it by going to the stroke tab and clicking the blue square. Note that you'll need to align the text to the middle before you add it to the path, as if it's aligned to the left (which it is by default) and you change it to be aligned to the middle after adding it to the path Inkscape will decide that the leftmost point of the path is the middle, and thus only show half of the text on the path for some reason. The text's alignment (it can be aligned to the left, middle, or right by selecting it, going to the Text tool and clicking the align buttons that appear at the top of the screen) determines where on the path it goes - generally I align the text to the middle, so it's at the centre of the path. You can change the length and curve of the path after putting the text on it and the text will change to conform to the path. One of your posts indicates that you might've figured this out already, but in case you didn't, what you need to do is draw a curved line with the Bezier Curves tool (the pen), then select both the curve and the text, and use the "Put text on path" option from under the Text drop-down menu.
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