"Allow rows to break across pages and columns" isn't

[igm3001]

I’m making a bilingual translation of a text in two languages, English and Hebrew (which is RTL) and am trying to set it to be a table with rows that break across pages. But even though I have “allow rows to break across pages and columns” selected, it’s inconsistent — some of the rows seem unwilling to break, leaving big empty spaces on multiple pages! I’ve attached a PDF of several pages from the translation which demonstrate the issue. Is there a way to fix this?

eight pages that demonstrate the issue.pdf (257.5 KB)

[keme1]

Uploading a PDF version displaying the issue, you are hiding the possible causes.
Make an ODT sample instead, and upload that. This will retain the structures and settings you used to achieve the result.

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The PDF just shows the result, much like when - if you have problems with your car - you bring a picture of the car to the auto repair shop. We can see that it is not good, but we can’t reliably determine the cause, hence we can’t fix it for you or suggest what you need to do. (There are of course a couple of potential settings to rectify, but the more obvious you seem to have in check, and the less obvious depend more on guesswork and may easily have you messing up your document more).

[igm3001]

@keme1

ODT sample instead

sample.odt (63.2 KB)

here you go. I had sent the pdf since I assumed people wouldn’t have the SBL Hebrew font installed, but I wanted to show the result