When using zmerge for creating new merges, can't load masters required first.

[asl2010]

Merging of mods fails using zmerge with Vortex because of the error below:

Exception loading ArmorKeywords.esm: "ArmorKeywords.esm" requires master "DLCCoast.esm" to be loaded before it.

Fatal Error: Exception loading ArmorKeywords.esm: "ArmorKeywords.esm" requires master "DLCCoast.esm" to be loaded before it.

I used to have this same problem when using matortheeternal's merge plugins standalone with NMM. I solved the problem by editing the NMM plugins.txt file and adding the masters at the beginning of the file. However, when I try to do the same using vortex and zmerge it doesn't work. Has anyone found a workaround for this?