Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
corps 10 points
English translation:
10 pt font
French term
France
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Native in: English 
Works in: French to English, Italian to English, German to English
corps 10 points
I know that we can say "10 point" in English, but I am not sure what to do with the "corps" part here... any ideas how to say this?
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Tony M
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Pascale van Kempen-Herlant
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Proposed translations
10 pt font
The 'body' is just another way of saying the same thing, harking back to the days of metal type. One used to say that a book was set in (e.g.) 10/12 Times New Roman, meaning a 10 pt body size with 2 pt leading (= space between lines), so the overall pitch of the lines was 12 pt. In these electronic days, it tends to be viewed and hence expressed slightly differently.
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Note added at 3 hrs (2012-11-29 09:49:26 GMT)
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In your source text, depending on the exact context, i.e. the way it is being expressed, you probably need to say something like 'fonts smaller than 10 pt are...' or '...when/if the font is smaller than 10 pt', etc.
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Note added at 16 hrs (2012-11-29 22:15:23 GMT)
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If we say '10 pt font' nowadays, we mean by that 'font with a 10 pt body size'; if nothing else is specified, then the point size implicitly refers to the body size.
Translator English/Dutch/Spanish-French
Native in: French
Works in: Dutch to French, English to French
font-size 10
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Note added at 1 hr (2012-11-29 07:32:24 GMT)
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Le corps typographique est la taille d'une fonte de caractères, mesurée en points typographiques : un texte en corps 10 est un texte composé dans une police dont le corps est de dix points.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corps_typographique
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Dominique Stiver
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Merci Dominique
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Tony M
: Yes, though that's not really the most usual or natural way round to express it in EN.
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OK Tony
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Didier Fourcot
: "corps" est la hauteur du caractère, bien d'autres choses peuvent se mesurer en points, l'oeil, l'interlignage
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Merci Didier
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