[Inkscape-devel] question - text width and height

Hi, I am working on an extension for markdown -> svg text transform and currently facing a problem with getting text dimensions. I would like to position and scale my result (Group containing several text elements) into required values but I don’t know how can I get width and height of that group. Is there a way to get these values? I’ve read about using BBox. Is there a functionality maybe in inkex package to get BBox of an element ?

I’ll be glad for any advice.

Thank you, Lukas Haberzettl