Altitude above the Distance.
“You can always read DME-Altitude tables from Altitude first if you want, whatever the presentation…”
You can; … but my human factors guidance suggest that you won’t, particularly when there the workload might be high, you have been distracted, tired, we forget, we are lazy, etc, etc, …
Many years ago you could read altitude from an altimeter with a three needle presentation, but the industry learnt;
‘Jeppesen has the Distance above the Altitude’, is Jeppesen prepared to learn?