Maybe I'm having a massive moment of dumb here, but I've never had a wheel build give me this much trouble before. All the wheels I've built in the past have been 3x on both sides, with symmetrically sized hub flanges, and rims with clearly visible spoke hole offsets, and they've gone together with minimal difficulty.

Right now, I'm in the process of building up a 28x1-1/2" wheel around an early DynoHub for my 1937 Raleigh. In an effort to maintain some sense of historical accuracy, I made the decision to use the same spoke lengths for both sides, using a 3x pattern with the large flange and a 2x pattern with the small flange. The rim's spoke holes all look like they're perfectly centered, with no discernable offset. I found a set of instructions printed by Raleigh, which I decided to follow, again in an effort to maintain some historical accuracy.

The main problem I'm having is this: I'm used to being able to very easily have the wheel laced so that the spokes around the valve hole point away from the hole, but I can't seem to make that work with this wheel. Is this just an impossibility with using these mixed lacing patterns?