LaTex MarkUp – align equations

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I’m very elated by the fact that it has LaTeX support. I would like to know whether the \begin{align} \end{align} environment could be used, because it looks very good since the equations are aligned. If not how can i make this LaTeX command look better?

\begin{align*}
\int \frac{1}{(2x^{2}+4x-2)^{-\frac{3}{2}}} \ \textrm{dx} &= \frac{\sqrt{2}}{8} \int\frac{\sec{t} \cdot \tan{t}}{\tan^{3}{t}} \ \textrm{dt} \\\ &= \frac{\sqrt{2}}{8} \int\frac{\cos{t}}{\sin^{2}{t}} \ \textrm{dt}
\end{align*}

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As mentioned, WordPress does not provide general LaTeX support, but usually only mathmode support. Thus you have to use something that works from within mathmode, and not its own environemnt. In this case, there is a very useful one called ‘aligned’ (with the ‘ed’ at the end). To render the above in your default WordPress.com LaTeX (or even in MathJax-LaTeX plug-in), use the following code:

$latex
\begin{aligned}
\int \frac{1}{(2x^{2}+4x-2)^{-\frac{3}{2}}} \ \textrm{dx} &= \frac{\sqrt{2}}{8} \int\frac{\sec{t} \cdot \tan{t}}{\tan^{3}{t}} \ \textrm{dt} \\ &= \frac{\sqrt{2}}{8} \int\frac{\cos{t}}{\sin^{2}{t}} \ \textrm{dt} 
\end{aligned}
$

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