Best combination for adjusting B&W scanned Tif image files

Hi,
I have found it easy to use the many adjustments available in LR 2.3 to get great looking B&W images from RAW files but I have not yet figured out how to get great looking tones from the adjustments available for monochome image Tif files.
Anyone have a suggestion on the best way to work on these in LR?

TIFF files a treated differently "under the hood", because they are demosaiced gamma-ecoded files. But I think that you roughly have to do the same things thgat you used to do to Raws (Exposure, blacks, contrast, curves etc.), maybe with different values, because of different starting points for RAW vs non-RAW files.
In case you're wondering why the grayscale mixer is not available — that's because the TIFFs are greyscale and therefore have no color channels to mix.
Perhaps, using localized adjustments to get good tonality is a good way to go too. hat would be a good equivalent of traditional darkroom dodging and burning.

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