Restructured text splits paragraph between pages and adds erroneous list bullet

Question

So my issue is that I am generating a document for one of our products and this item is split between two pages and it adds an extra bullet (as circled below). How can I remove this wrong bullet or simply force the list item to the next page?

Syntax of split line

* I am a very long statement and I create a bullet when I continue on to the next line. Why does this happen? I am using rst2pdf to generate this document. Please send help. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. *(XXXXXX-40A, August 2019)* (`CN-XXXXX <https://www.jira.com/browse/CN-XXXXX>`_)  

Versions

pytest = "^5.0"
pylama = "^7.6"
pylint = "^2.2"
pytest-cov = "^2.6"
black = "18.9b0"
sphinx = "^2.0"
docutils = "0.16"

Answer 1

rst2pdf uses the raw directive to insert manual pagebreaks:

One page

.. raw:: pdf

    PageBreak

Another page

Or switch to a different PDF engine (I tried your reST markdown via pandoc - which uses texlive - and the widow/orphan pagination looks fine).

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Edit:

I installed rst2pdf v0.97 and out-of-the-box the PDF also looks fine.

So guess your Sphinx project conf.py (or the rst2pdf stylesheets chosen) must be customized. Try a different stylesheet to see if problem persists, e.g.

pdf_stylesheets = ['autumn','kerning','a4-landscape']