The swashed characters are called A.swsh B.swsh etc etc

Any glyph can be entered by its name using the slash:

Thanks Johny, that's much appreciated.

Another method: select (click on with command key down) the glyphs in the Font window and hit “command option shift M”, which will open the Metrics window with those glyphs showing.

What a pain! In FontForge (still the old MacPorts version), I can type the text, select the features kern, ss01, ss03, ss04 and get the result in the kerning window.

You can do the same thing in FontLab Studio in the Preview window. Even applying kerning.

Admittedly, it doesn't show the numeric readouts in that window; you'd have to paste the list of resulting back into the metrics window. So I'll grant that the FontForge approach is slightly better integrated.

That Font Forge Metrics Window looks dreadful. How can anyone space letters with those vertical lines running between each pair? Ouch! Can they be hidden?

Those lines disappear when we are actually kerning, so I find they provide useful information without bothering too much. They were removed in the github implementation.

I just took the time to check at home (I was out of town in the previous post) and that "cute" kerning window in the github FontForge version changes the side bearings instead of kerning; what a mess!*At least my old MacPorts version does its job.

*See post below. It is just some default values that were changed.

View -> Show Grid -> Hide (or Partial or Hide When Moving)

Good to know.

And to get kerning, I see that we can set Metrics > Window type > Kerning only. The default values have been changed.