Ok see above:
If you copy just the content you need into your post (ie via a plaintext editor like notepad so it's not bringing in tags & styles that VGC will ignore)
Then when you post it into VGC do it into the source code editor rather than the text editror & just add 2 style elements into the paragraph in the html editor so that it reads:
p style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre;" ####content#### /p
(above is missing the < & > as the editor aparently accepts code)