diff --git a/tools/cldr/cldr-to-icu/README.md b/tools/cldr/cldr-to-icu/README.md
index 7cf4c755b97..15d1f4d2f75 100644
--- a/tools/cldr/cldr-to-icu/README.md
+++ b/tools/cldr/cldr-to-icu/README.md
@@ -87,64 +87,74 @@ $ ant -f build-icu-data.xml
$ ant -f build-icu-data.xml -DcldrVersion="36.1"
```
-* Using alternate CLDR values (ex: use `alt="ascii"` values from the CLDR XML):
+### Using `alt="ascii"` CLDR alternate values from the CLDR XML
- First, edit the `build-icu-data.xml` file where it mentions `ALTERNATE VALUES`
- with the correctly annotated source path, target path, and locales list:
- ```diff
- @@ -384,6 +399,20 @@
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+CLDR provides alternate values in addition to the default values for locale data.
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- Then run the generator:
- ```
- $ ant -f build-icu-data.xml
- ```
+1. First, edit the `build-icu-data.xml` file where it mentions `ALTERNATE VALUES`
+with the correctly annotated source path, target path, and locales list
+as follows:
+
+ ```diff
+ @@ -384,6 +399,20 @@
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+ ```
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+1. Then run the generator:
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+ ```
+ $ ant -f build-icu-data.xml
+ ```
## Config syntax details