When logging in to the front end, I click on the famous pencil and paper icon to edit an article on the front end and no editor displays. I am running Joomla 2.5.9 with the Publisher template version 3.8.
Tested this in local server and it is working fine. Can you please post a link to your website and create a test account where we can check this error.
Please send access details to my email normanuk[at]live.co.uk and include this topic link in your email.