[GAP Forum] Alignment problem for printing tables

[Sandeep Murthy]

Hi.

I've written a simple GAP program that prints a table of information
in 3 columns for a given group:

1st column - shows distinct orders of proper subgroups realized by the group
2nd column - shows the number of distinct subgroups of the group of the
order given
by column 1
3rd column - shows a representative conjugacy class of the subgroup

So the output for the the alternating group Alt(5) currently prints out
like this:

Order                Number Of Subgroups                Subgroup Conjugacy
Class
--------        -----------------                ----------------------------

 2                          15                                            
            Group([ (2,3)(4,5) ])
 3                          10                                            
            Group([ (3,4,5) ])
 4                          5                                             
       Group([ (2,3)(4,5), (2,4)(3,5) ])
 5                          6                                             
       Group([ (1,2,3,4,5) ])
 6                          10                                            
            Group([ (3,4,5), (1,2)(4,5) ])
 10                        6                                              
      Group([ (1,2,3,4,5), (2,5)(3,4) ])
 12                        5                                              
           Group([ (2,3)(4,5), (2,4)(3,5), (3,4,5) ])

Entries of column 1 and 2 are aligned with the headers, but the problem is
that
the third column entries are not aligned with the header.  I tried to give
each
conjugacy class a string name, and then offset the print function exactly
so that the
name is aligned with the header, but the String( object ) methods doesn't
seem to work
for elements of ConjugacyClassesSubgroups( group ).

Anyone have any suggestions?

Sincerely, Sandeep.