I have site displaying articles, about a dozen of each belong to a particular "issue number". So I have a term that represents an article issue number, Issue #1, Issue #2, Issue #3 .. Issue #100 etc, which by default, is ordered:

* Issue #1
* Issue #100
* Issue #2
* Issue #3
* Issue .. etc

I'm having problems creating a term view that lists all issue numbers in numeric order.

(a) The in-built term weight appears to be limited to the range -128 <= weight <= 127, which would limit me to only 256 distinct issue numbers. And I think there is a bug when these are draggable which further limits the range between 0 <= weigth <= 128, so I can't use it to sort.

(b) The term ID (id) could also be used to sort, but I can't find a way to renumber them to match my required order.

(c) I've tried archard's useful Term fields module, but I can't find a way to sort by the new numeric issue number field I've created.

(d) I've tried generating a node view, but displaying only "distinct" terms, but this doesn't work.

Any suggestions?