[Groff] TeX for troff users?

[Frank Jahnke]

I've been using troff for over 25 years (most recently as groff), and I
still can get nearly any sort of text to jump through hoops.
Unfortunately, the professional journals do not accept troff source.
Invariably, they accept Word, WP and TeX, and while I am have OK skills
with the former two, they really are not up to the sorts of heavy-duty
tables, math and chemistry that I do in my publications. Besides, Word
and WP produce truly ugly type. No, many journals won't accept PDF files
as an original.

To date I have been using a mechanical troff to latex translator, and
while that works surprisingly well for most of the text, there are many
things that need fixing. For example, any number registers set in troff
are lost.

So it is time for me to learn TeX better. Could anyone suggest an
article or text that is "TeX for troff users?" I don't really want to
work through the standard texts unless I have to. I know basically how
TeX works, I would simply like to learn how to use the sorts of things I
know from troff in a TeX environment.

Any advice would be most appreciated.

Frank