anytime i type it seems there is an invisible box around the words that is cutting off parts of the beginning, ends, bottoms and sometimes tops of my words. Just got a new mac and had to update to inkscape .91 I'm sure this is some simple setting but I'm not familiar enough to know what.. Id really appreciate some help. I cut vinyl letter stencils and only use words on inkscape so this is causing me a lot of trouble. Thanks

Hi.

Probably you made a flowed text instead of a regular one. Make sure not to rectangle select the text area, just click with the text tool to write.

http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Text-Creating.html

Thanks for the reply. I've been working with text tool from the left bar only. This is the way I've done it for years but since I got the new version .91 on my new Mac I've been having this problem. I was hopeing there may be some new setting I didn't know to turn on/off? Thanks

There's a known bug, as far as I know... Even two, it seems:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1283194 and
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1450675 could be the right ones - does it change if you zoom in and out?