Create a work path from type

When you start working with type on a path, you quickly come to realize that the…possibilities are endless.…And if you need some inspiration, I strongly suggest that you do a browser search…for typographic portraits, and you will come up with some really, really cool stuff.…And it's very, very labor intensive, but we are going to try something a lot…more modest and achievable in the space of a few minutes,…but nonetheless very effective, and that is we are going to take a letterform,…and then we are going to put type around that letterform. And in this case I've…chosen to use an S, and around it I am putting a Shakespeare quotation from The…Merchant of Venice, and I have broken this quotation into two parts.…

There is the first part, and there is the second. Combined they very effectively,…I think, suggest the graceful shape of this S letterform.…So let's see, how do we do this?…I am going to turn off those finished layers, and I am going to turn back on the S.…What we want to do here is want to create a path from this letter.…