[ANSTHRLD] Field only device

[Jim Trigg]

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Daniel de Lincolia wrote:

> So if there's "per pale" or "paly" with an argent or a sable half,
> you're sunk.  My first regular expression I tried was on the raw
> Armorial file was
>     |Per pale argent and.*|FO|
> meaning "a blazon starting with 'Per pale argent and' and being in
> category 'field only'".  I don't know whether you can do that with the
> online search.

You can, but it's not straight-forward.  You need to do a complex search,
with one parameter being either a Blazon Pattern of "Per pale argent
and.*" or an Armory Description of "PPALE:argent", and the other being an
Armory Description of FO.  Note that the latter will not give exactly the
same results -- the first match you found is categorized as
PPALE:multicolor:~and multicolor.

> Next search:
>     |Per pale argent and.*|FO|

(You meant ...sable and...)

> revealed
>
> * Ædric the Grene|9801Q|d|Per pale sable and vert.
>   1 CD for changing all the tinctures, but by the precedent I
>   mentioned it's not Complete Change of Tincture (sable is shared) --
>   bounce.
>
> Searches using "paly" instead showed nothing.  (The stereotyped
> American prisoner uniform is "Barry sable and argent", so that's
> substantial difference and no possible conflict.)

You missed searching for Per pale ___ and sable and Per pale ___ and
argent.  In the complex search that's easy -- use PPALE:~and sable (or
~and argent).  An accurate regexp is more complicated, but "|Per pale .*
and sable.*|FO|" is a good first approximation.  (A more comprehensive
regexp using extended regexps [egrep/grep -E] would be "\|Per pale .* and
(sable|argent).*\|FO\|".  That finds no additional conflicts with the
proposed coat, though it does find some specific complex lines that would
result in new conflicts.)

Blaise
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