I just tried your example "These are the lyrics and [Gm]this is the chord" in the web interface, Android 5.1 and iOS 9.2 and it displayed as expected on all three platforms. You should not need to do anything special with spaces, and you should be able to put the chord brackets right up against a word to align the chord with that word.
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