Users of biblatex-chicago? Trouble with adding editors to books. Help is hugely appreciated!

[Catalyst77]

Do you use biblatex-chicago? Have you manged to successfully footnote a book with an editor?

If so, I REALLY need your help!

I've had an ongoing problem with this package for almost a year now. I'm about to throw in the towel and write my thesis in Word...but, of course, I'd rather not do that!

What happens is this: when I footnote a source that has an editor, I get a weird, bold-faced placeholder instead of "ed." or something similar. I include the chicago package as

\usepackage{biblatex-chicago}

and my .bib entry looks like

@BOOK{pag84,

title = "The Glenn Gould Reader",

author = "Glenn Gould",

editor = "Tim Page",

publisher = "Knopf",

address = "New York",

year = "1984"

}

But my footnote comes out looking like this

1. Glenn Gould, The Glenn Gould Reader, cbyeditor Tim Page (New York: Knopf, 1984), 35.

I've searched all over the internet for help, but found nothing but a thread in Norwegian. In desperation, I even tried google translating that, but was utterly confused, and it seems like they don't have an answer either. Can anyone help me with this? Alternatively, can anyone suggest another good package that will let me do proper Chicago Manual footnotes...without the "cbyeditor"?

[waddle]

Do you use biblatex-chicago? Have you manged to successfully footnote a book with an editor?

If so, I REALLY need your help!

I've had an ongoing problem with this package for almost a year now. I'm about to throw in the towel and write my thesis in Word...but, of course, I'd rather not do that!

What happens is this: when I footnote a source that has an editor, I get a weird, bold-faced placeholder instead of "ed." or something similar. I include the chicago package as

\usepackage{biblatex-chicago}

and my .bib entry looks like

@BOOK{pag84,

title = "The Glenn Gould Reader",

author = "Glenn Gould",

editor = "Tim Page",

publisher = "Knopf",

address = "New York",

year = "1984"

}

But my footnote comes out looking like this

1. Glenn Gould, The Glenn Gould Reader, cbyeditor Tim Page (New York: Knopf, 1984), 35.

I've searched all over the internet for help, but found nothing but a thread in Norwegian. In desperation, I even tried google translating that, but was utterly confused, and it seems like they don't have an answer either. Can anyone help me with this? Alternatively, can anyone suggest another good package that will let me do proper Chicago Manual footnotes...without the "cbyeditor"?

Can you post a minimal working example? Or better yet, try consulting the good folks over at tex.sx. They might be able to help.