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It might really help to use smart guides: View > Smart Guides or Ctrl+U or Cmd+U. This way, if you hover over an object like an anchor, a small word appears, saying 'anchor'. Be sure that Snap to Grid …

There's multiple ways: actually subtracting your white path from the text shape, or creating a clipping or opacity mask. …

Click on the rectangle path to add anchors to it. Add anchors at the points where you want the gap to be: one at the start of the gap, one at the end. Select the Scissors tool. … This will cause the closed path to open, and the single anchor is now split into two, overlapping anchors. Select the Delete Anchor Point tool. …

The are multiple ways to achieve this, all of them basically scale the object proportionally. It pays for all of them to untick 'Scale Strokes and Effects' in the Preferences. Scale tool Select the o …

At least as long as all your characters are roughly the same height, you can reduce their baseline with the advanced options of the character panel: This way, the characters will sink below the path …

I find that Ctrl / Cmd-click-dragging any shape or point with Smart Guides active, allows me to snap to existing anchors and strokes. All other snapping is off, and I disabled the bounding box.

The example you give is not an instance of text on a path, but rather regular point text being skewed. …

You can click anywhere to erase that part of a path. Double click the tool or use [ and ] to change the brush size. …

As soon as a path consists of more than one continuous line, it has to be a compound path. …

Select all of your shapes; Select Object > Compound Path > Make; Use the resulting path as a clipping mask. … Make sure that any compounded letter shapes are compound paths as well before trying to integrate them into the bigger path. …

I'm guessing you made the zig-zag with a brush. Expand your line's appearance with Object > Expand Appearance . Then mirror it with the reflect tool (or Object > Transform > Reflect) as usual.

The method to achieve it involves copying a part of one path, breaking open the other and joining the copied part into it. …

In principle, any single stroke can only have a single colour attribute at any one time. As joining creates one stroke out of two, this is true for the end result. However, a gradient is also a 'colo …

You can always Object > Expand the entire compound path. This will leave the gradient's appearance intact, at the cost of editability. …

Use the pen tool to draw your path. The Smart Guides should help you find the exact positions of the desired anchors, they will be mentioned as 'anchor' in green once you hover close enough. …