With screenshots 
1. The reversed path has been raised as a bug. Still not fixed. Without flipping the path you get
2. This shows the requirements for flipping a circular path.
Flip tool - Path mode - Vertical and a one click only in the canvas.
Be careful about carriage returns (Enter key) in the on screen text tool.
3. A CR before text will depress text
4. A CR after text will raise text
A little video I made for someone as a demo https://youtu.be/7fumw57Z2H8 might help. That also shows Ofnuts text tool plugin. Get that from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-pat...s/scripts/ ofn-text-along-path.zip
Updated recently, about four down the list
and
another more general demo showing rotating the text around the circle https://youtu.be/pukUIefS0xI
1. The reversed path has been raised as a bug. Still not fixed. Without flipping the path you get
2. This shows the requirements for flipping a circular path.
Flip tool - Path mode - Vertical and a one click only in the canvas.
Be careful about carriage returns (Enter key) in the on screen text tool.
3. A CR before text will depress text
4. A CR after text will raise text
A little video I made for someone as a demo https://youtu.be/7fumw57Z2H8 might help. That also shows Ofnuts text tool plugin. Get that from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-pat...s/scripts/ ofn-text-along-path.zip
Updated recently, about four down the list
and
another more general demo showing rotating the text around the circle https://youtu.be/pukUIefS0xI