diff --git a/src/parser/parser.ts b/src/parser/parser.ts
index c9768a4..062e5ba 100644
--- a/src/parser/parser.ts
+++ b/src/parser/parser.ts
@@ -27,10 +27,7 @@ const parseHeader = (tokens: Token[]): [Header, Token[]] => {
 
   while (tokens[0]) {
     const token = tokens[0];
-    if (token.type === "text" && token.value === "") {
-      // Ignore empty lines before header
-      tokens.shift();
-    } else if (token.type === "header" && token.value === "Name") {
+    if (token.type === "header" && token.value === "Name") {
       tokens.shift();
       const [name, rest] = extractText(tokens);
       header.name = name;
@@ -73,9 +70,6 @@ const parseIntervalComments = (tokens: Token[]): [Comment[], Token[]] => {
         text: text.value,
       });
       tokens = rest;
-    } else if (start.type === "text" && start.value === "") {
-      // skip empty lines
-      tokens.shift();
     } else {
       break;
     }
@@ -135,8 +129,6 @@ const parseIntervals = (tokens: Token[]): Interval[] => {
         comments,
       });
       tokens = rest;
-    } else if (token.type === "text" && token.value === "") {
-      // Ignore empty lines
     } else {
       throw new ParseError(`Unexpected token ${tokenToString(token)}`, token.loc);
     }
diff --git a/src/parser/tokenizer.ts b/src/parser/tokenizer.ts
index 95bb8b1..bc4a17e 100644
--- a/src/parser/tokenizer.ts
+++ b/src/parser/tokenizer.ts
@@ -150,19 +150,38 @@ const tokenizeLabeledLine = (line: string, row: number): Token[] | undefined =>
   throw new ParseError(`Unknown label "${label}:"`, { row, col: 0 });
 };
 
-const tokenizeText = (line: string, row: number): TextToken[] => {
+const tokenizeText = (line: string, row: number, afterDescription: boolean): TextToken[] => {
+  if (!afterDescription && line.trim() === "") {
+    // Ignore empty lines in most cases.
+    // They're only significant inside description.
+    return [];
+  }
   return [{ type: "text", value: line.trim(), loc: { row, col: 0 } }];
 };
 
-const tokenizeRule = (line: string, row: number): Token[] => {
-  return tokenizeLabeledLine(line, row) || tokenizeComment(line, row) || tokenizeText(line, row);
+const tokenizeRule = (line: string, row: number, afterDescription: boolean): Token[] => {
+  return tokenizeLabeledLine(line, row) || tokenizeComment(line, row) || tokenizeText(line, row, afterDescription);
+};
+
+// True when last token is "Description:" (optionally followed by any number of text tokens)
+const isAfterDescription = (tokens: Token[]): boolean => {
+  for (let i = tokens.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
+    const token = tokens[i];
+    if (token.type === "text") {
+      // skip
+    }
+    if (token.type === "header" && token.value === "Description") {
+      return true;
+    }
+  }
+  return false;
 };
 
 export const tokenize = (file: string): Token[] => {
   const tokens: Token[] = [];
 
   file.split("\n").map((line, row) => {
-    tokens.push(...tokenizeRule(line, row));
+    tokens.push(...tokenizeRule(line, row, isAfterDescription(tokens)));
   });
 
   return tokens;