diff --git a/source/lex.tex b/source/lex.tex
index e10a29e55c..7eb701a912 100644
--- a/source/lex.tex
+++ b/source/lex.tex
@@ -178,10 +178,10 @@
 \item
 Adjacent \grammarterm{string-literal} tokens are concatenated\iref{lex.string}.
 
-\item Whitespace characters separating tokens are no longer
-significant. Each preprocessing token is converted into a
-token\iref{lex.token}. The resulting tokens
-constitute a \defn{translation unit} and
+\item
+Each preprocessing token is converted into a token\iref{lex.token}.
+Whitespace characters separating tokens are no longer significant.
+The resulting tokens constitute a \defn{translation unit} and
 are syntactically and
 semantically analyzed and translated.
 \begin{note}