On Mon, 4 Jul 2022, Johann Birnick via ntg-context wrote:

please have a look at the following example:

\starttext $\overbar{\alpha} \overbar{\beta}$ \stoptext

The first one works just fine, whereas the second one looks very odd. (At least in MkIV...)

Any ideas?

I don't understand why you are using $\overbar$ in math mode. Do you want $\bar{\alpha}$ and $\bar{\beta}$? Aditya