get the width and height in display coords of the string s
        with FontPropertry prop

        # passing rgb is a little hack to make cacheing in the
        # texmanager more efficient.  It is not meant to be used
        # outside the backend

def get_text_width_height_descent(self, s, prop, ismath):
        """
        get the width and height in display coords of the string s
        with FontPropertry prop

        # passing rgb is a little hack to make cacheing in the
        # texmanager more efficient.  It is not meant to be used
        # outside the backend
        """
        if rcParams['text.usetex']:
            # todo: handle props
            size = prop.get_size_in_points()
            texmanager = self.get_texmanager()
            fontsize = prop.get_size_in_points()
            w, h, d = texmanager.get_text_width_height_descent(s, fontsize,
                                                               renderer=self)
            return w, h, d

        if ismath:
            ox, oy, width, height, descent, fonts, used_characters = \
                self.mathtext_parser.parse(s, self.dpi, prop)
            return width, height, descent

        flags = get_hinting_flag()
        font = self._get_agg_font(prop)
        font.set_text(s, 0.0, flags=flags)  # the width and height of unrotated string
        w, h = font.get_width_height()
        d = font.get_descent()
        w /= 64.0  # convert from subpixels
        h /= 64.0
        d /= 64.0
        return w, h, d