@User and @User I just ran an LVS using netgen and a xschem generated netlist. It worked, which is nice a milestone for me. But there were a couple of samll wrinkles:
1. The xschem netlist uses the 'mult' parameter for device multiplier which netgen doesn't pick up because it's looking for 'm'
2. The xschem netlist adds the 'nrs' and 'nrd' parameters which show up in the LVS as not matching so I believe these should be added to the sky130A_setup.tcl list of properties to ignore