Initial Tempo?

[Matt Bethe]

I am surprised that there is not an initial header that 
establishes the text for the tempo.  In 
all the music I 
have seen the leftmost edge of the initial tempo 
text lines up with the leftmost 
edge of the meter.  I 
looked through the examples and there are
 three workarounds: 

putting tempo as "piece" in the header, but that is technically too
 far away from the music

omitting the tempo text

putting the tempo text as \markup above the f
irst note, but that is too 
far to the right.  Also, in this case 
the text is printing directly over the next few 
notes with ledger lines.  Is there 
a way I can raise the text for 
now?  I don't really understand how to
 do it from the documentation.

Thanks for any help!