diff --git a/cpp-generator/experimental/impl_header_parser.cpp b/cpp-generator/experimental/impl_header_parser.cpp
index 6c55bdf..ead1556 100644
--- a/cpp-generator/experimental/impl_header_parser.cpp
+++ b/cpp-generator/experimental/impl_header_parser.cpp
@@ -337,12 +337,13 @@ ImplParseResult parseImplHeader(const QString& headerPath,
             // event prototypes from. (At preprocess time, `logos_events`
             // expands to `public`, but the raw source still carries the
             // token we recognise here.)
+            bool specifierStripped = false;
             while (true) {
                 QRegularExpressionMatch em = eventsRe.match(line);
                 if (em.hasMatch()) {
                     state = InLogosEvents;
-                    pendingDoc.clear();
                     line = line.mid(em.capturedEnd()).trimmed();
+                    specifierStripped = true;
                     continue;
                 }
                 QRegularExpressionMatch am = accessRe.match(line);
@@ -350,12 +351,22 @@ ImplParseResult parseImplHeader(const QString& headerPath,
                     QString spec = am.captured(1);
                     if (spec == "public") state = InPublic;
                     else state = InPrivate;
-                    pendingDoc.clear();
                     line = line.mid(am.capturedEnd()).trimmed();
+                    specifierStripped = true;
                     continue;
                 }
                 break;
             }
+            // A *bare* specifier (nothing after the colon) is a section
+            // boundary and resets any pending doc-comment, mirroring Qt's
+            // `signals:`. But when a declaration shares the line, the doc
+            // comment preceding the whole line must still attach to that
+            // declaration — otherwise documentation, like the declaration
+            // itself (#76), would become formatting-dependent. So only clear
+            // here for the bare form; the same-line form keeps pendingDoc and
+            // attaches it in the declaration parser below.
+            if (specifierStripped && line.isEmpty())
+                pendingDoc.clear();
 
             // Only doc comments (/// or /** ... */ / /*! ... */) accumulate as
             // the pending description for the next method. Plain // and /*
diff --git a/tests/experimental/fixtures/same_line_events_impl.h b/tests/experimental/fixtures/same_line_events_impl.h
index aaf0062..e0e46ee 100644
--- a/tests/experimental/fixtures/same_line_events_impl.h
+++ b/tests/experimental/fixtures/same_line_events_impl.h
@@ -15,7 +15,11 @@ public:
     public: std::string greet(const std::string& name);
 
     // The exact prettier-formatted form from the issue: `logos_events`,
-    // a space, the colon, then the event prototype — all on one line.
+    // a space, the colon, then the event prototype — all on one line. The
+    // `///` doc comment above must still attach to the event: in the
+    // collapsed form there is nowhere else to put it, so dropping it would
+    // make documentation formatting-dependent too.
+    /// Fired once the latest version is known.
     logos_events : void versionReady(const std::string &version);
 
     // A further event after the section is already open (still same-line).
diff --git a/tests/experimental/test_impl_header_parser.cpp b/tests/experimental/test_impl_header_parser.cpp
index d9d6757..7892aab 100644
--- a/tests/experimental/test_impl_header_parser.cpp
+++ b/tests/experimental/test_impl_header_parser.cpp
@@ -386,6 +386,10 @@ TEST_F(ImplHeaderParserTest, SameLineSectionSpecifiers)
     ASSERT_EQ(versionReady->params.size(), 1);
     EXPECT_EQ(versionReady->params[0].name, "version");
     EXPECT_EQ(versionReady->params[0].type.name, "tstr");
+    // The `///` doc comment above the collapsed line must attach: in the
+    // same-line form there is nowhere else for it to go, so documentation
+    // must not be formatting-dependent either.
+    EXPECT_EQ(versionReady->description, "Fired once the latest version is known.");
 
     // An event declared after the section is already open, also same-line.
     const EventDecl* downloadProgress = findEvent("downloadProgress");