The recipe for creating an atlas out of a book and a map does not show in the vanilla recipe book interface.

Arguably this is a "special recipe", and vanilla special recipes such as map cloning do not show in the recipe book in vanilla. However, unlike most "special recipes", this recipe is very simple and could be clearly conceptualized and displayed in the the recipe book interface without causing any confusion. I believe it would be useful to display it in the recipe interface, as a guide to help players learn how to create an atlas.

maybe a jei update broke the recipe display

No, I'm talking about the vanilla recipe book. I don't have JEI installed. Sorry I should have made clear, this is more of a feature request.

then it cant be done. recipe book doesnt work like that and infact doesnt even show vanilla special recipes. this the precise reaason why mods like JEI re so much needed in modded

Understandable. Slightly annoying for me, since JEI doesn't support the vanilla's recipe books's unlocking feature and insteda just bombards you with every recipe unlocked instantly. But if it's a technical limitation then I'll just have to live with it.

then use EMI

Does EMI support unlocking recipes based on the vanilla recipe book? I can't seem to find any config option for it, and there's still an open issue for that feature on the EMI repo.